Those who gather 'round know
The gift that you gave to your family in life.
And those of us who now study know
Your gift in death continues to be given ? it grows?
It lives beyond you daily in the minds of learning students.
From your gifts we learn?
You teach us human anatomy,
The wonder of God's creation,
And the truth of generosity.
Your memory?
Enhanced by your final gesture. 
Your love?
Now felt by strangers.
The gift will flow as a cycle
From your love to our learning,
To others? healing,
And the appreciation of all 
So that once again another might give the same gift
And so the cycle flows?
I would say to your loved ones?
Do not feel a loss of a carpal body,
instead come to know the beauty of his soul.
Come to know the full beauty of her spirit, his generosity.?
Into my life you came?
A silent mystery was all I could imagine
But day after day you had lessons to teach me
You demonstrated that every human body is an amazing creation.
You shared the intricacy and resourcefulness of our architectural design.
Most importantly, now I see how beautifully different each person is from one another.            
The very same variation that we know and see outside is true on the inside, too.  It's beautiful.
Day after day you had lessons to teach me.

I want to thank you, too, on behalf of our future patients.  Their care will be better because you 
lived and died.  And in your death you gave.  Now we will understand our patients better and they 
will be able to live healthier because of your gift.  They won?t know you, but your contribution to 
their care will go on for our lifetimes as physicians.

I envision peacefulness in your spirit and immortality in the gifts that your body gave to me.  They 
will not end.  Thank you for your vision and foresight. 

Maybe in life you were a clerk or lawyer,
Maybe in sales or the media,
Maybe even a parent and lover, 
But somehow you must have always known that you would be a teacher.