The heartwarming moment mother Maria Clark got to listen to her son’s heart two years after a fatal car crash was captured on video by the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency.
Maria Clark lost her son, Nicholas Peters, in a fatal car accident nearly two years ago. He was 25. At the time, Clark knew immediately that she wanted to donate his organs. The Madisonville, Louisiana, resident said she also knew her son would have wanted the same. Unbeknown to her, the grateful donee who received her son’s heart lived less than three hours away from her. Jean Paul Marceaux, aged 14, received her son’s heart after spending a whole summer in the hospital fighting for his life. For the first time since the transplant took place, Clark had the opportunity to meet the young boy and listen to her son’s heart, Good Morning America reports. Read the full story from Upworthy.