Organ donations, good intentions and apathy

July 26, 2026 — 5:00am

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Brooklyn Wangmann was only four years old when she died on an operating table. When medical staff asked her parents about organ donation they did not think twice.

Brooklyn gave another child her liver in a direct transplant at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead three years go. “We just felt that Brooklyn was the type of little girl who would want to help someone, and for us, it was a way for a part of her to live on,” her mother Rebecca Wangmann told The Sun-Herald’s Rachel Rasker.

Grieving and altruism meet in organ donation. Families can find that the altruistic choice to donate a loved one’s organs helps shape meaning from their sudden loss. Although widely supported, Australia........

© The Sydney Morning Herald