Neko Case

seeing one of my best friends die and sitting with her body for four days as you know she was an organ donor and she had a massive aneurysm and you know her partner just heroically did CPR. And then the paramedics came and kept her pulse going and got her to the hospital and they stabilized her despite the fact that she had no brain activity.

And you cannot be an organ donor unless you die on a respirator in the hospital. Like, it's very, very specific. So, and then you have to wait for all the tests. Like, there are, you know, barrages of tests that happened to make sure that, you know, you're healthy and that you're your organs can really save someone else's life and not be rejected.

And you cannot be an organ donor unless you die on a respirator in the hospital. Like, it's very, very specific. So, and then you have to wait for all the tests. Like, there are, you know, barrages of tests that happened to make sure that, you know, you're healthy and that you're your organs can really save someone else's life and not be rejected.

And you cannot be an organ donor unless you die on a respirator in the hospital. Like, it's very, very specific. So, and then you have to wait for all the tests. Like, there are, you know, barrages of tests that happened to make sure that, you know, you're healthy and that you're your organs can really save someone else's life and not be rejected.

So we spent days just with her and talking about her life and what a selfless person she was. We joked a lot about how she was going to work even in death. She was all about service. And then the day came. Right on the way to the OR, what they do is they do a thing called an honor walk. And we went down what seemed like miles of corridors behind her hospital bed, behind the doctors.

So we spent days just with her and talking about her life and what a selfless person she was. We joked a lot about how she was going to work even in death. She was all about service. And then the day came. Right on the way to the OR, what they do is they do a thing called an honor walk. And we went down what seemed like miles of corridors behind her hospital bed, behind the doctors.

So we spent days just with her and talking about her life and what a selfless person she was. We joked a lot about how she was going to work even in death. She was all about service. And then the day came. Right on the way to the OR, what they do is they do a thing called an honor walk. And we went down what seemed like miles of corridors behind her hospital bed, behind the doctors.

And the corridors were lined with doctors and nurses and hospital staff honoring her. And it seemed like... One of those movies where you see the people going down the corridor in slow motion to get into the spaceship to go to the moon or whatever, and everyone's saluting them, and it seems so important. And I think I actually saw that in real life.

And the corridors were lined with doctors and nurses and hospital staff honoring her. And it seemed like... One of those movies where you see the people going down the corridor in slow motion to get into the spaceship to go to the moon or whatever, and everyone's saluting them, and it seems so important. And I think I actually saw that in real life.

And the corridors were lined with doctors and nurses and hospital staff honoring her. And it seemed like... One of those movies where you see the people going down the corridor in slow motion to get into the spaceship to go to the moon or whatever, and everyone's saluting them, and it seems so important. And I think I actually saw that in real life.

And I just thought, all those things that I worry about and the injustices, we are so right to fight for them. And I was there watching this incredible thing happen and these beautiful people from all over the world, many of the doctors are immigrants. And, you know, it was a mix of people of all colors from all over the world and all different cultures.

And I just thought, all those things that I worry about and the injustices, we are so right to fight for them. And I was there watching this incredible thing happen and these beautiful people from all over the world, many of the doctors are immigrants. And, you know, it was a mix of people of all colors from all over the world and all different cultures.

And I just thought, all those things that I worry about and the injustices, we are so right to fight for them. And I was there watching this incredible thing happen and these beautiful people from all over the world, many of the doctors are immigrants. And, you know, it was a mix of people of all colors from all over the world and all different cultures.

And I felt so utterly galvanized against the fear and so utterly galvanized in that joy is the way forward.

And I felt so utterly galvanized against the fear and so utterly galvanized in that joy is the way forward.

And I felt so utterly galvanized against the fear and so utterly galvanized in that joy is the way forward.

loud-ass, exuberant joy.

loud-ass, exuberant joy.

loud-ass, exuberant joy.

I don't, but I do talk about this occasionally.