Late Yao Beina's Christmas photo. (Photo : www.chinaentertainmentnews.com)
A young man has been given the gift of sight after deceased pop singer Yao Beina's cornea has been successfully transplanted into him over the weekend.
The death of pop singer Yao Beina has been transformed into something worth celebrating after it paved the way for other's lives to be improved.
After learning she had a few months to live, then-33-year-old songstress decided to donate both of her corneas upon her death.
Then, on Jan. 16, 2015, Yao passed away at the age of 33 after suffering from breast cancer.
Making good of her promise, Yao's corneas were immediately put into the possession of Dr. Yao Xiaoming, who later transplanted them to a young man from Sichuan's Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture on Saturday.
One of Yao's corneas were transplanted to a 23-year-old resident of Chengdu identified as Dong Liang.
Even before the operation, Dong expressed his utmost gratitude to the singer and her family for choosing him as a cornea recipient.
"As a recipient, I want to stand up and give positive energy to other people. I was shocked and touched. I just want to say thank you to Yao and her parents," he said.
According to CriEnglish.com, his mother expressed her own gratitude to the singer through vowing to donate her own corneas to those in need upon her death in honor of the late singer's magnanimity who, "even in death has brought new hope to her son's life."
Yao Beina, also known as Bella Yao, had become popular after she sang the official theme song of the famous TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan," and was further immortalized in her career after she participated in "The Voice of China" in 2013.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2011 and had undergone several breast cancer treatments such as mastectomy and chemotherapy.
However, her breast cancer had a recurrence and reportedly worsened in Dec. 2014, after which she had declared that she would want her corneas donated to two people from Shenzhen and Chengdu.
