Kavita Karkare, wife of slain former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, passed away at P D Hinduja hospital in Mahim recently. She was admitted to the hospital after she suffered from brain haemorrhage and was declared brain dead.

What is heartening to note is that her children had expressed a wish to donate her organs. According to reports, one of her kidneys went to a man who had been surviving with the help of dialysis for nearly a decade. The recipient of the other kidney was a patient who had been waiting for a transplant for seven years. A man who had been battling liver failure for a few years got her liver and her eyes were to donated to a blood bank. In her death, Even in death, Kavita Karkare has given a second lease of life to others.