Bermuda Sun News | Raymond Hainey
A tragic road accident victim has given others the gift of life after his relatives donated his organs for transplant, the family revealed on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the family of Alex Monk, who died last Friday after his bike was in collision with a bus on Thursday morning, said: “Alex touched many lives during his 41 years of life.
“We are comforted knowing that he continues to help others, even now.”
Mr Monk, a gifted cartoonist and artist who had only been married to wife Maria for ten months, suffered serious head injuries in the crash, which happened on Middle Road, Southampton, around 7.20am last Thursday.
Staff at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit battled to save him but he never regained consciousness and was pronounced brain dead on Friday morning.
Wife Maria and father Larry made the decision to donate his organs to others and a specialist team from Boston was flown in on Friday evening.
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