Before three-year-old Georgia Fieldsend was taken into the operating theatre, her mother Ilse removed the tape from Georgia's mouth that kept the tubes to her life-support machine in place. She put her hand on her daughter's heart as it slowly stopped beating and stroked Georgia's face as the colour left it. Then Ilse watched as her daughter was wheeled away, in the agonising knowledge that the surgery Georgia was having would not save her life, but the lives of other children. Five days earlier, Georgia had suffered a fatal brain aneurysm. In the midst of profound shock and grief, Ilse and her husband James decided to donate their daughter's organs. As harrowing as the decision was, it also...
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