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Anna was genetically designed and born to be the perfect genetic match for her sister, Kate. Kate suffers leukemia and will die without blood and bone marrow transfusions from Anna. From Anna birth onward into her early teens, she have to undergo increasingly invasive and dangerous procedures to provide blood, bone marrow, and other tissues to sustain Kate's life.
At 13, when Kate needs a kidney, Anna has had enough. She sues her parents for the rights to her own body. But actually the truth is Kate wants to die. Anna’s act was command by Kate. Because Kate preferred to stop the transfusion and want to die to meet her soul mate, Taylor that had cancer and die before. Meanwhile, Kate was tired and has been through so many painful operations. Also she feels guilty that her disease is tearing the family apart.
The relationship between Anna and Kate is beyond love. They share a bond closer than most. Their relationship is not only about the sibling and the kinship but also the connection between them. They are emotionally sustaining each other, for instance, even as Anna undergoes painful medical procedures in order for Kate to survive. She is willing to do whatever for her sister even she was misunderstood by her parents as she sue her parent is just because Kate is tired of living. She knew that, for Kate, living in this world is even more painful than she die. Kate may relieve in heaven, at least she doesn’t have to bear all the painfulness that brought by the surgeries and the guiltiness that she had to face the family. That’s why Anna was willing to help end the treatments and accept her death. And I guess this is the mightiness of Love.
Therefore, if I was Anna, I would not use my body to save Kate. It is not because I am selfish. In fact, I respect her. She was exhausted in this world and death is a way to relieve her extreme pain in physically and emotionally. Besides, we can’t forcibly uses one life to twist the another‘s destiny. It’s not fair to

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