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.

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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