Giving the gift of life: Teenage brain haemorrhage victim's organs save the lives of eight people

A 13-year-old schoolgirl who died from a brain haemorrhage saved the lives of eight people by opting to donate her organs.

Jemima Layzell had discussed organ donation with her parents and told them she wanted her body to help save others in the event of her death.


And when the healthy teenager suddenly collapsed at home in Horton, Somerset, and died in hospital from a massive bleed in her brain, her parents decided to honour her wish. 

Since her death her heart has gone to a five-year-old boy, a 14-year-old was given her lungs and her liver was split between two boys, aged ten months and five.

Two people, aged 19 and 24, received her kidneys, a 40-year-old man was given her pancreas and her small bowel has changed the life of a boy aged three-and-a-half.                    Read More