Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier extraordinaire, has died of injuries suffered during a training run in Park City, Utah.
Burke was only 29, but she was a world class skier and was expected to be on the Winter Olympics 2014 Team for half pipe skiing. Instead of going to Russia as an Olympian, the accident--which appeared very minor, initially--sent Burke to a Salt Lake City ICU, where she eventually died.
Sarah Burke had reportedly told friends and family about her desire to be an organ donor, and her family honored her wish to help save lives. One donor can help as many as nine people who are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, by donating their heart, lungs, liver (which can be split to save two people), kidneys, pancreas and small intestine.
