Andrew Laughlin

Just reading your autobiography and I haven't cried that hard in ages. I too had teenage sons and worry that something will happen to them constantly. I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart aches for you.

Today It is 23 December 2013! It has been almost 6 years since I recieved your Liver as a Christmas Present on the 24th through the 25th of December 2003. Much has happened over the years since then! I have personaly lost family members over the years and also still go to the hospital in New York and the Veterans Hospital in Northport NY. Now I Volunteer there when I am able working with the Veterans and trying to give something back to the Wounded Warriors since I also was a Veteran. I...

Dear Family and Friends,

Many of you may visit this site today. It is hard to believe that two years ago at this moment, those of us who could be there and who loved Andy were gathered in an ICU waiting to see if there would be a miracle. Although we did not know it then, God did provide us with a miracle. He set Andy free from a body and mind that would have never been the same because of the injuries he sustaained.

Since that time the Laughlin and the Sanders families...

Dear Andy,
Today we would have celebrated twenty four years with you. You would have been at the entryway to the rest of your adult life. Instead we were blessed with only twenty two years of you with us physically, and the remaining two years where we can only feel you, and celebrate with you, with the passing of a gentle breeze, or the sun shining through the flowers of a hisbiscus tree, or the snow that falls on the nose of a goldent retriever, or the sensation of walking into a mist...

My Dearest Andy,
Mother's Day was always such a wonderful day for me. It was wonderful because each year I would see the growth within human beings that I was proud to call my children. Imagine my delight on Mother's day in your twenty second year of life. I was fortunate enough to have both you and Kristen home. Both of you were accomplished, loving, kind hearted, independent and on pathways to all that life would have to offer you both. Seven months later you were gone. I cannot say, I...

Hi JEJ,
I wanted to thank you so much for writing on Andy's guest book. You hadn't checked the box to allow those who view the Guest Book to contact you via email so I assume you wanted to remain anonymous. I hope it doesn't bother you that I use this tool to communicate how much it touched my family as we huddled around my mother's laptop on the anniversary of Andy's death and read together your very touching words.

I'm sorry it has taken us so long to post anything but I...

To Andrew And His Family

I am truly sorry that I had never known you when you were alive. From all the newspaper articles, and information that was written concerning your life. You were the kind of person, which I was a few years ago when I was your age. Over the years I was involved in Emergency Services, until I contracted a virus. Which destroyed my liver a few years back? I hope by writing this letter here that this will not upset anyone since transplants are usually not known....

My Dearest Andy,
I have dreaded this one year mark. Somehow in my brain I have come to believe that there is nothing magical that can be done after one year. I can no longer wrack my brain about how I can turn the clock back, or slow your car down, or get rid of the black ice. After one year I am forced to accept that this gaping hole in my heart will remain there forever. I am forced to accept that the heaviness I walk with every day will be with me until we meet in heaven. I have however...

Andrew,

I am truly sorry that I never met you when you were living. From the information and newspaper articles that I have read about you.

You were the kind of person I was a few years ago when I was your age. I was involved in emergency services till I became sick.

I WANTED TO THANK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOR THE AMAZING GIFT THAT YOU GAVE ME ON DECEMBER 24th. I received your gift of life, and received a liver Transplant in Manhattan NY on the 24th.

Because of this...