Sarah Gray
Sarah Gray is the author of the award-winning, Washington Post best-seller, A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science. Her work and her family's story has been featured on CNN, WNYC's RadioLab, The Associated Press, Science Magazine, The Atlantic and other major media outlets. Ms. Gray delivered a TED Talk of the Day and spoke on The Moth Mainstage.
Sarah Gray is the author of the award-winning, Washington Post best-seller, A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science. Her work and her family's story has been featured on CNN, WNYC's RadioLab, The Associated Press, Science Magazine, The Atlantic and other major media outlets. Ms. Gray delivered a TED Talk of the Day and spoke on The Moth Mainstage.
How a bio specimen donation created a bridge to healing
When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she decided she wanted to make the most of his life and his death. In the weeks before she gave birth to her twin sons in 2010, she arranged to donate Thomas's organs. Due to his low birth weight, they would go to research rather than transplant. As transplant donors have the opportunity to meet recipients, Sarah wanted to know how Thomas's donation would be...
I am not the boat.
She describes feeling powerless, like a small boat on a rough sea, having to adjust constantly to outside forces. Making the choice to donate her son's body to science and then to meet each researcher, opened her eyes to an entirely new way to look at her son's, and her own, life.
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