About Caitlyn

Caitlyn Caroline DeCilio DOB: 5/22/2000

Deceased: 1/8/2024

Organs Harvested : 1/10/2024

Caitlyn was the only daughter of Anthony and Jessica DeCilio, she has 1 brother Tyler DeCilio. Caitlyn grew up in Connecticut and relocated her Junior year of high school to Oviedo Florida. We moved for a better life for our family. She graduated Oviedo High School and was currently attending South Seminole with a focus on speech therapy and writing. Caitlyn loved her family, friends, pets singing non-stop. She wrote poetry, painted, learned ASL and had an amazing sense of humor. She was the light and hope in our family.

When she was 15, she got her permit at DMV Winter Springs Fl. She was asked only “Do you want to be an organ donor? Check the box Yes or NO”. No further information or directions provided, other then you can be a hero and save lives. Who wouldn’t want to be a hero, and your getting a drivers license, teens will agree to just about anything that day? Teens also think they are immortal and their parents can solve all of their problems. This is where the problem begins: Everyone knows organ donation saves lives, but do they ever consider who is on the other side and how important providing all the information and making

it transparent it should be. The organ procurement company makes millions of dollars, the Federal government saves millions of dollars, but there is a grieving family on the other side.

No one at DMV checks if you have the mental or emotional capacity to understand what that check box means. In fact, none of the DMV employees can explain the laws and rules of checking that box either. They just know they are encouraged/mandated to push this agenda on anyone registering to get a license. The fact is once you check YES and become 18 years old it is a legally binding contract, a Last Will and Testament that can not be altered, changed by anyone including immediate family, POA or Advanced Directive