Mike Ervin: Ruben Navarro and Rethinking Donation of My Organs
…d have gone to prison for eight years in connection with the 2006 death of Ruben Navarro. Navarro’s disability was adrenal leukodystrophy (ALD), which was depicted in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil.” He was a nursing home resident and one day he was rushed to the hospital because he wasn’t breathing. He was put on a respirator but doctors took him off after only a few days. Navarro‘s mother agreed to donate his organs and Roozrokh came to harvest them….