A nightingale’s gift of life for five


Good deed: Photo of Carmen, taken from her boyfriend

GEORGE TOWN: Teenager Carmen Mark may have passed away but she continues to live on – in her boyfriend’s heart as well as through five people who received her donated organs.

Carmen died on Tuesday, 25 days after she collapsed suddenly at Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic where she was studying nursing. Carmen, a former student of Penang Chinese Girls High School, was 18.

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