One mother from Madisonville, Louisiana was able to listen to her son’s heartbeat one more time after he died in a car accident almost two years ago. With help from the nonprofit Lousiana Organ Procurement Agency, Maria Clark met her son’s organ recipient, fourteen-year-old Jean Paul Marceaux, on May 14, 2022, in New Orleans.
Upon his death, Clark’s twenty-five-year-old son, Nicholas Peters, had donated his organs, namely his heart. On her son’s wish, Clark said, agreeing with the decision, “We can’t bury all of this magic…we have to share.” Clark described her son as “the life of the party,” noting that he was “always a people person, helping everybody, going out of his way to make sure you knew you were special.” After he had passed, Nick’s heart traveled three hours to nearby New Iberia, Lousiana to help one more family in need.