Dead student’s gifts of life

Star: STUDENT M. Akilan, 12, may be dead and gone but he has given “life” to many others.
His parents, despite grieving for him, made a magnanimous decision to donate his organs which were harvested by the authorities on Thursday, according to Tamil Nesan.
The paper said V. Muthu, 46, and his wife S. Saraswathy, 34, felt that his untimely death should not be in vain, and hoped that some lives would be saved by the gesture.
Akilan 12, who was in a coma after an accident in Port Dickson on July 1, died without regaining consciousness at the KL Hospital on Thursday.
The Year Six pupil at SRKT Port Dickson was waiting to cross the road with his bicycle when a car knocked into him.
The boy, who suffered serious head injuries, was admitted to the Seremban General Hospital and later transferred to KLH.