Austin Nelson, kidney donor

By photo courtesy of Becky Nelson

December 7, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST

At age 15 Austin Nelson began telling his mother that if anything happened to him he wanted to be an organ donor. When Nelson died in a car accident five of his organs were transplanted, including his kidney.

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