"Mm, it was a last-minute decision. At the time, she—she really wasn't going to make it. She was so young, only a few years old, and then... One of the nurses said something, and we decided to donate. At least... at least part of her lived on..."
"Do you remember that nurse?"
"What? Was that against the rules? She didn't say anything like that. She just said that if we'd registered as voluntary donors, we should let them know, and they'd arrange the surgery and everything. I didn't know... We hadn't registered, so we talked to the doctor, and the hospital arranged it. Was that against the rules?"
"That's not what we mean. We're just hoping to learn more details."
"Oh. I really can't remember who was there. Things were pretty chaotic then, and we were in a daze. Something like that had happened to her out of nowhere. She'd been perfectly fine... She'd been fine that very morning..."
"After Ms. Liu died, her organs were donated. What happened to the rest of her body?"
"It was cremated as usual. They took her to the funeral home, and she was cremated the next day."
"Did you contact the recipients or the hospital afterward?"
"I did contact the hospital. We didn't understand at first, but later we found out that we weren't allowed to meet the recipients. The doctor, I think he was the department head or something, was very polite and explained a lot to us. Even though we couldn't meet, thinking about that person, thinking that my daughter's organs were still alive... it was some comfort."
September 13, 2007. Audio file analysis. Audio file 04220070912G.wav.
"...She was still holding my hand, telling me she didn't want to die..."
"There's no voice on this one either. We've got the wrong