Jillian Whelan's parents knew about her wishes regarding organ donation, making it possibile to give eight families hope for their loved ones from this tragedy. (CBC)
A grief-stricken family in Sydney, N.S. hopes to turn their tragedy into a source of hope for others, deciding to donate their daughter's organs after a fatal car crash earlier this week.
Eight people will receive organs, eight life-changing gifts from a single tragedy.
On Monday, 16-year-old Jillian Whelan was a passenger in a serious car accident on Highway 105, in Dalem Lake, Cape Breton. Air ambulance transported her to hospital in Halifax where she later died of her injuries.
Just a few weeks before Whelan's death, her father helped her fill out her provincial Medical Services Insurance form, which has a section for organ donation.
"She signed it and she said, 'What's this part?' and I said, 'That's organ donation, if something happens,' and she asked if I was and I told her, 'I was,' and she said that would be something she would want to do," Whelan's father Murdock Smith recounted.
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