Lisa
The father of Lisa Orsi has paid tribute to her as he prepares to lay her to rest.
Lisa will be buried on the Fanad peninsula in Co Donegal later on Friday in a graveyard overlooking Mulroy Bay where her grandparents are from.
The 22-year-old was pronounced dead last Friday in Singapore, with organ donations set to help up to 50 others to live.
The physiotherapist fell into a coma after collapsing on a trekking holiday to Indonesia. She had suffered from a rare form of altitude sickness.
Her mum Lisa and dad Dennis have organised a private Mass in Derry today.
“Lisa was one in a million, she was a star,” said Dennis, “I was very proud, we were both very proud of Lisa. She just affected everybody she ever met.”
Lisa was passionate about organ donation and he said that’s why they went ahead with the operation.
“It was very difficult. Lisa went for a live donation, Lisa left us from the hospital ward in the same state as we’d spent the previous 16 or 17 days with her.
“She was in exactly the same condition when she left us and went to theatre. We said our goodbyes, walked to the theatre and basically, that was it and she came back to us and she’d passed on. It was a very difficult day.”
Mum Sharon said: “Lisa loved life and loved living and she lived it to the full. We were so proud that she did that and happy that we have those memories – that she was happy doing that.
“Even though she has been taken away from us – there has been so many other people have gained maybe their children’s lives or their husband’s or wife’s. We are so proud of her in her life and in her death.”
Requiem Mass is in the Church of the Immaculate Conception near her Derry home at noon.
The funeral will make its way through streets adorned with yellow ribbons in her honour.
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