A bill meant to encourage living people to donate their organs has failed to advance at the Indiana Statehouse. When 62-year-old Danny Ernstes says he never takes a single day for granted, it’s not a cliché. “Every day that I wake up, I am grateful to a higher power," Ernstes said. Just three years ago, Ernstes was in Stage 5 kidney failure, staring at death, if he didn’t get a kidney transplant. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-bill-to-encourage-living-organ-donors-dies-in-committee-kindey-danny-ernstes-kidney-carbaugh-insurance-discrimination-charges-refusal-donor/531-d75cf751-9ec5-4032-94d4-33163cde521c