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After he died of cancer at 19, Idaho football player gave someone else the gift of sight

A University of Idaho football player who died of cancer last month made sure that, in his passing, he became an organ donor.

Collin Sather, who had just turned 19, died after a month-long fight with renal cancer on Feb. 26. According to Inside Edition and KHQ.com, Sather donated his corneas to someone in need; Inside Edition reported that none of his other organs could be used, as cancer had spread throughout his body.

“He was adamant that he wanted to be an organ donor, so this wasn’t my call at all,” his mother Treena Sather-Head told Inside Edition.