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Bryan Clauson's legacy, inspiration, lives on through organ donations

Tim Clauson didn't know the destination. He only knew he couldn't stay at the Nebraska hospital where life-support machines kept the beat going in the heart of his son.

The devastated father had just signed papers fulfilling Bryan Clauson's final wish. Doctors told Tim he could possibly spend as many as 72 more hours at the hospital with one of the best dirt-track open-wheel racers motorsports had seen in decades, but one who would die at age 27.

In no-how, no-way terms, Tim Clauson looked at his wife, Diana, and adamantly said to her: "I will not be here.