Bec’s selfless gift for others

She’d left the house to buy milk, mounting her motorbike – something she’d done every day for three years and took off.

But just over a kilometre from her house she came off the bike, suffering an inoperable brain injury.

Just 4 months earlier Bec and her partner Dave bought a house together. They’d moved in just two weeks before the accident happened.

Sitting at home, Dave heard the helicopter that retrieved her hovering overhead.

An uneasy feeling crept into his mind and moments later, police arrived at his home to deliver the news.

When told there was nothing that could be done, Dave made the decision to donate Bec’s organs – a decision he said was ultimately an easy one to make.

“Bec’s best friend Chrissie had a heart transplant 18 years before the accident, but the heart started to fail and she was relisted for another donor heart,” he said.

“Bec would often say if she could give Chrissie her heart, she would. Chrissie died while on the waitlist.”

He said the decision honoured Bec’s wishes and continues her legacy of helping others.

“It is the most selfless thing you can do. Bec helped three people (heart, lungs and corneas) and she's still helping people now, with the donation of skin and tendons.

In death, there are things she is helping with to this day.”

To register as organ donor visit www.donatelife.gov.au/register-donor-today