Living his best life as a scuba diver in the Keys, Nick Kolor, known as "Cuda" like barracuda, made a life-changing decision at just 25 years old.
He wanted to donate one of his kidneys.
"I decided it really was impossible to justify not giving up the kidney. I don't need it. Someone else does. It was pretty straightforward," he said.
Kolor decided to donate one of his kidneys to anyone who needed it, a stranger.
"The thought process should be, you know, what goes around, comes around. There's millions of other 25, give or take, year olds walking around to have a perfectly healthy spare kidney. It is a spare part. You don't, you don't need it. There's no clinical necessity there," he said.
Honored to save a life
After passing the screening process, Kolor was on the operating table at

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