A heart donor recipient reached out to the mother of his late donor so she could hear her son’s heart beat three years after his death.
The donor, JaShawn Scott, died at 17 but had registered as an organ donor at 13. Five of his organs went to patients in need. Only recently did his mother, KeShaunta Scott, connect with the recipient of his heart over Facebook.
JaShawn died in a car crash in October 2019 while KeShaunta was celebrating her birthday. A Toyota Camry slammed into the Audi A6 JaShawn was in, at Gahanna, Ohio’s intersection of Sunbury Road and Morse Road, which left the Camry driver and her daughter dead at the scene. JaShawn would die days later in the hospital. The driver of the car he was a passenger in survived with minor injuries.
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Scott’s meeting with the seemingly middle-aged heart recipient Ryan Magill was captured in a video.
“The joy I felt could never be explained,” Scott wrote in a subsequent Facebook post on Thursday. “Thank you for showing up for me.”
“When you find out you’re having a baby the first thing, the first thing you hear is the heartbeat, so I wanted to hear the heartbeat,” Scott said.
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Anyone can register to be an organ donor at RegisterMe.org.
