This is Leicestershire --The story of how a baby boy helped to save the lives of three other poorly children is to be told in city schools.
Dad Nick Hodges – who is backing the Leicester Mercury's Save a Life Campaign – has helped to make a video about how he and his wife Donna agreed their 10-month old son should be an organ donor.
Doctors from Leicester's hospitals are hoping the message will hit home and persuade hundreds of secondary school pupils to join the national organ donor register.
Bodie Hodges was rushed to hospital after a choking accident at home in April 2012.
He died 12 days later but, thanks to his parents, his two heart valves helped other children.
In addition, his liver and bowel were used to help save the lives of two girls.
Nick, 37, said: "Bodie's death is something that as a parent you can never make sense of.
"It is the worst thing you can go through. But, it also made no sense to not give hope to another child and their family.
"We knew Bodie's spirit had gone to heaven and he wouldn't need his body there, so organ donation was a decision we were able to make quite quickly. Sometimes, you think why was it our son but we have no regrets at all about the organ donation.
"It was a chink of light in the darkest moments and it did help with the grief.
"It wasn't a difficult decision for either us.
"When we knew Bodie wasn't coming back, we knew agreeing to organ donation could have a positive impact and he could leave a legacy."
Nick and Donna have set up the Bodie Hodges Foundation in memory of their son.
As well as raising enough money to buy a holiday home where parents who have lost a child can have a break the charity is working to raise awareness of organ donation.
Nick, from Whetstone, said: "We had never talked about organ donation and it is one of the hardest conversations you will ever have.
"But when you have been in a situation where any extra day with your very poorly child seems like a year, I am glad we have been able to give some hope and extra days to families.
"On the day when we said goodbye to our little man some families were getting a call that would change their lives forever.
"I hope people support the Leicester Mercury campaign to promote organ donation."
Richard Power, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and member of the organ and tissue donation committee at Leicester's hospitals, begins a tour of secondary schools along with colleagues this week.
The first talk will be at Lancaster School, in Knighton, where Nick is a PE teacher.
Mr Power said: "We thought it would be a good idea to talk to pupils getting ready to take GCSEs, as many are thinking about starting to learn to drive, which could present dangers in the future." Reported by This is 7 hours ago.