NBC News’ Kate Snow speaks with two families brought closer together by a rare direct heart donation.
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#Nebraska #OrganDonation #BrotherInLaw
What a beautifully tragic set of circumstances.😇🫶🦋💯
Part of him is still alive. Replayed this many times, nice faces and kind hearts
Tears of joy for the family!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤
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Wow what a heartfelt story. Very emotional yet so beautiful! May God bless this family
7 to 11 year survival rate after the transplant. Heart transplants and lung transplants in general are a scam.
So Beautiful ❤❤❤
His daughter can have my heart.
Heartwarming story alert!
That was a small miracle that they matched. Such a great outcome after such a tragedy. Best of luck to both families.
Amazing and beautiful. This young man will live on!
I’m alive today because someone donated blood. And I can walk because someone donated their bone and tissue. I thank them ever day.
Organ donation is so important. Once I have gone, my body is just a shell.. I have told my family, please do whatever you can to bring the most comfort. Donate whatever is possible. It is such a gift to pass along life to someone else.
OMG. Can’t stop the tears. I’m been an organ donor since I was 20, waiting for the day I’m needed.
What a beautiful story. TJs heart literally lives on.
What an amazing thing to have such precious people so close to you.. my heart goes out to both families🩷🥺🩷
If you want to be an organ donor tell your family. Having it on your license ins’t enough.
I’ve spoken to my daughter about organ donation and she said she’d donate her organs just not her eyes 🥰
My heart hurts. What a beautiful testimony.
But see… TJ still lives because of Packy and Packy still lives because of TJ. TJ gave Packy a LITTLE push car 🚗 and it worked. One broken 💔 replaced with one good ❤. Two soul mates are still here and it is good. 💯💯💯
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What a beautiful story ❤
That’s what blessing are all about…❤
So sad.
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I’m so glad they give God the glory! God Bless😇
Top respect to both of these beautiful families.
My grandson’s lungs are in a man that lives in another country. I firmly believe in donation of any and all parts of the body
Wow
I’ll donate my heart to help someone’s life out. Let them prosper and live a life with smiles.
This is very touching😢 may be rest in peace.
wow! What a situation ❤
Thank you for sharing this – there are far more kind, compassionate, and caring humans in this world than not. ❤
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Who else here was disappointed when no one said “In a heartbeat”?
Beautiful story
How wonderful science is to make right the cruel mistakes of God.
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Wow
Nope
He definitely win his family’s heart and they will treasure that
As the wife of a donor greatest gifts you can ever give
I don’t get it bcz the donor had a bad heart and they said his chest was full of blood clots
Prayers work – two words that say everything
Wow! God is amazing he brings people closer together at the toughest time
What a beautiful story and family❤
when a loved one passes, many people will say “they’ll always be in my heart”
not many people can say “his heart will always be in me”
That made me cry. How precious. ❤
Bless them all. 😢
😭 so touching!!
I can donate a kidney or liver if anyone needs it.
EDIT: I too live in Omaha, Nebraska
Insane story!
May TJ RIP
Beautiful men and families.
Blot clots? Shouldn’t have gotten the c19 vaccines
Blot blot
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Thank you LORD 🙏🏻
Beautiful story!😢😢
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God’s blessings and healing to all Amen 🍀🙏 😇😇🍀🤗💜
Uncle dad❤❤
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What a sweet and emotional thing to actually hear his heart beating to keep
Someone else alive ❤
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That heart gave the two families a chance to at least have one of the fathers around. Imagine the loss it would have been loosing both a dad and an uncle.
Blood donation and organ donation saved me. Please donate blood if you can! Donate life!
Amazing 🕊️✝️🕊️
Absolutely beautiful. May God forever bless these families with good health, love and peace.
What a beautiful yet tragic story ❤️❤️🙏🏻 R.I.P. TJ
If the medical establishment allowed the transplant, that means both men had gotten the Covid injections, but they may not have had these health issue in the first place if they had not gotten the Covid injections.
A tragedy seldom come alone.
He lives through you! 😮 How amazing!!!
Why’d the man die so young, and so suddenly? Think about that.
Been happening for decades. Think about that.
TJ still lives on. <3
So amazing 🙏
Prayers up to all his family members. I cannot fathom going through this. Love to them.
I dont want to be on this planet anymore. How can I donate my everything? Back and right leg are trash and don’t work well. You can have the rest.
Beautiful. I’m a 2x double lung recipient and currently waiting for a kidney. I have several friends who also are recipients. Organ donation turns someone into a hero that leaves the greatest legacy. God bless organ donors 💙💚
Beautiful. Wish them all the best. May he rest in peace. <3
This is beautiful… any organ donation by anyone is beautiful but this… what a way to carry on a man’s love for his family- TWO men’s love for their family…. And everytime Packy gets a hug from one of AJ’s kid’s they get to hear their dad’s heartbeat.💜
My husband was an organ donor.. someone got his cornea’s. ❤
What an incredible story. God bless both families. This is the kind of story we need these days – stories of love and kindness. ❤️
Wait wasn’t the heart the organ that put the donor in the hospital first and killed him? So isn’t the organ a bad one? I mean as in won’t it eventually do the same thing to this man? Of course this is a beautiful story and this man gets to live because of it… but is he still basically on another ticking time bomb?
May God bless both these families. Amazing.
He lives on through his brother in-law💜🙏🏼.
Omg what an emotional story. God works in mysterious ways. Thank you TJ for your gift of life.
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This is one the saddest videos I have watched, I understand where both families are coming from, tjs family are something else and packys family are so grateful but it must be very hard for packy to get his head around everything, it must be hard enough to know you are waiting on someone to die so you can live, none of us wish someone will die normally, having a strangers heart inside of you must be hard but having your brother in laws who’s also your best friend heart I believe would be the hardest part of everything that packy has gone through, there’s so many beautiful, kind and caring people in the world and we hardly get to hear these stories and this one is one in a million, bless everyone involved in this story and I hope you all have a wonderful life and packy has a long life with his best friends heart pumping away keeping him here on earth for a long long time, Tjs family are really special people with hearts of gold and honouring Tjs wishes the best way ever
“Love others as I’ve loved you”
“No bigger sacrifice than the one done for a friend”
Rest in Peace TJ you’ll forever be a hero.
Wow 🖤🖤
That would be so hard
It’s his brother in law literally his brother and she’s like “was he kinda like a brother to you” 😅
Bless your whole family
This story was so beautiful. Reminds me that good humans still exist in this cruel world we’ve become
Not gonna lie, this one teared up my tear ductS
Blood clots in the chest? Unfortunately, we will see a lot more of this in the next few years and everyone will stand around wondering why until it pokes them in the arm. 💡
His brother -in-laws ❤️ had so much more Love in it to give.
More LOVE to carry on.
Such a sweet sweet GIFT!
God Bless both families.
Tough situation
What a bittersweet story! God Bless them all!
Beautiful story ❤️