January 9, 2007
Jerry Orbach, Eye Donor
This morning's subway commute made us do a double take. Because we saw Jerry Orbach looking at us and the other riders from an ad! The Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to become eye donors. As it happens, today, the Daily News has a story about the Orbach donation:
The Broadway and TV star donated his eyes when he died in December 2004, giving sight to two women who needed new corneas.Radio and TV ads use Obrach's son Chris as the voiceover who says, "For two New Yorkers, his greatest role was that of an eye donor." The Daily News's headline is "Years after his death, Orbach still a class act." Ain't that the truth. Elaine Orbach also told the News, "He believed in the body continuing, if it's possible. What greater gift than if you must pass this world: that if something is still working, to give [it] to somebody who doesn't have a chance? I just believe he's very happy about that. This was his wish.""I cannot remember a day that went by where he didn't say, 'I want to donate my eyes,' " Orbach's widow, Elaine, recalled yesterday.
A prostate-cancer patient at the time of his death at age 69, the Bronx-born Orbach did not donate any other organs, she said. "He never wore glasses. He could read in the dark, practically - just this wonderful vision he was so proud of."
The Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has information about eye donations. And we miss Jerry Orbach very much.
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He said every day that he wanted to donate his eyes? Every day?
orbach was a great actor, but if a day didn't pass when he didn't say "i want to donate my eyes," then he sounds like tedious company.
This has been running as an ad in the Daily News for the past week or so, which is mentioned in the article. Don't know why it has run only in the News.
I would give Mrs. Orbach the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant that in his final illness he talked about donating his eyes every day.
Try to remember, the kind of September
when I didn't say "I want to donate my eyes."
RIGHT ON
Maybe Elaine didn't look so hot in the morning.
"Take my eyes, I beg you"
AGAIN WITH THE EYE TALK, JERRY!
It would have been cool if they removed his eyes from the ad photo.
It would have been funny if they removed Jerry's eyes from that photo.
It would have been funny if they removed Jerry's eyes from that photo.
I didn't know it was Prostate cancer? Isn't that one of the more curable forms of cancer?
Michael milken and giuliani and all those guys.
so sad to hear he's not one of the survivors because we needed him. they always take the good guys.