Student wanted to donate organs
When visitors arrived to pay their respects to Jillian Whelan on Friday, they were given the opportunity to wear a green ribbon — the symbol of organ donation.
The ribbons were there at the request of the 16-year-old’s parents, Colleen Whelan-Smith and Murdock Smith, and were available as people entered the Sydney funeral home.
In the midst of their heart-wrenching grief, Jillian’s parents are comforted by the knowledge that up to eight people will live as a result of their daughter’s organ donation.
“She ended up (donating) her heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys,” Smith said Friday, his voice breaking through tears.
“It’s a big help. She was so full of life and now that life is spread. It hasn’t ended really, it’s moved on.”
Jillian died Aug. 27 as a result of a single-vehicle car crash on Highway 105 in Cape Breton. She was one of two girls in a Volkswagen Jetta that rolled into a ditch at about 3:40 a.m. An air ambulance transported her to a Halifax hospital where she died of her injuries.
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