The honor walk

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A new ritual called an honor walk is bringing solace to families who’ve lost a loved one and consented to have organs donated. Hospitals are organizing these walks as a way to honor the gift of life that will be passed on to those who will benefit from transplants.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.0	I'm Al Ezen.
0:12.0	In our last episode, we looked at the challenges of getting organs to patients who are waiting
0:16.0	for them.
0:17.0	After a heart or kidney or liver is recovered, there's a rush of activity to get that organ
0:22.4	to the person whose life depends on it.
0:25.0	Now, we want to focus on what happens just before that flurry.
0:29.0	Because that promise of life means someone has died.
0:35.0	My name is Dexter Chris.
0:37.0	I am a full professor at Sunni Pletsburg.
0:41.0	And Dalton is my son.
0:43.0	He is the third of three children.
0:48.0	Dalton is mostly known because he was an outstanding wrestler here in Upstate New York.
0:55.0	He was such a kind person to everyone that he wrestled.
1:00.0	People went and then pick him up off the mat.
1:02.0	You know, he just that kind of guy.
1:04.0	Dalton graduated from high school June 2019.
1:08.0	He was going to major in criminal justice.
1:10.0	There at Sunni Pletsburg.
1:11.0	And he was going to also monitor in music as well as history.
1:17.0	He loved history a lot.
1:21.0	August 19th, the day of the accident changed everything for the Chris family.
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