Soprano sings about importance of organ donation

CBS News | Seth Doane

(CBS News) About 113,000 Americans are waiting for new organs, but many will not live long enough to get them. To raise awareness of the need for organ donors, one young patient is raising her voice, sharing her remarkable story of survival.

Charity Tillemann-Dick was once told singing the music she loved could kill her. To an opera singer, there's little that's more precious than a good set of lungs. Her wait for a transplant was excruciating.

But last September, she debuted in a concert at Lincoln Center in New York after her first double lung transplant.

"When I go onto stage and when I sing, it makes me so happy because I'm sharing one of the things I value most," Tillemann-Dick told CBS News.

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