He died. She survived.

There's a story about this young man and woman who are brother and sister to each other in a normal Arabian family of which these two are ailing of the same disease having the same symptoms and the same blood type.

While on one hand, the brother was a worker and was trying as much as he could to compensate for the time that he has lost over having the disease for over 8 years of his life, the sister had just been diagnosed with the same newly developed incurabley unknown disease over a matter of a couple of weeks.

The brother was told one day that the only way to survive that either one of the two had to die to donate organs to the other so that the other may live in a more healthy way. What everyone didn't know was that he was secretly planning his destiny by choosing to be that person so that his sister may live.

So, in time, he immerses himself into his work and doesn't take care of himself and of his health while there are many reasons to do otherwise. But believing in the ultimate sacrifice, he willed himself that he would give up his life so that his younger sister would live on 'happily ever after'.

One day, he was admitted into the hospital because the worst has come to surface.

He was dying.

Everyone was there from his family.

Everyone crying. Doctors trying to figure out something that they could overlooked into. But fate had it's way with the young man's choice.

At that point of time, his younger sister reached out her hand and clasped his every so tightly as if to hold onto his soul's strength to delay the seconds that were going by to the inevitable.

But she couldn't delay what was going to happen anyhow.

No one could.

He died, there and then.

The family was allowed a mere half an hour to set their griefs aside so that the attempt to boost up the young woman's chances to live a more healthy and more natural lifestyle.

The operation was done.

6 months after the operation she was alive and kicking. Happily newly wed with all the thanks to God and her brother for his sacrifice.

..She still visits his grave to give her respects to him and his great gesture of courage.