Oct. 17 (UPI) -- South Korean author Baek Se-hee, known for her best-selling memoir I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died, according to the Korea Organ and Tissue Donation Agency. She was 35.
The Korea Organ and Tissue Donation Agency announced her death Friday in a statement, calling the author "a star in the sky" for saving five lives through donating her heart, lungs, liver and both kidneys at the National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital.
The cause and date of death were not made public.
"We are deeply grateful for the warm-hearted love shown by donor Baek Se-hee and her family in practicing the gift of life," Lee Sam-yeol, director of the Korea Organ and Tissue Donation Agency, said in the statement.
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