Today, they’re glad they did — and so are DuPage County officials who decided to pay it forward.
“It’s such a wonderful thing to know your loved one lives on,” Carney’s mother, Ellen Carney of Winfield, recently told the county board.
Last month, more than 120 county workers and elected leaders signed up for organ and tissue donation in honor of Jake Carney, an athletic and well-liked 17-year-old who died after a November 2010 car crash.
With the blessing of his family, the West Chicago Community High School senior’s liver, kidneys and pancreas went to two people awaiting lifesaving transplants.
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