The woman who died to become a mother

BURIED in a small plot in Fingal cemetery are five embryos. Next to them is their mother, who wanted children so much, it cost her her life.

The woman who died to become a mother

Jacqueline Rushton and the five embryos she made with her husband Danny were blessed and laid beside her side, in her coffin.

She went into a coma, just days after doctors removed her eggs for fertilisation. Just as her dream had come true, her life was about to be taken away.

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