With her husband Matt staring into her eyes, Mallie fought back tears as she mustered the courage to whisper: “This is it, isn’t it?” Hooked up to an oxygen tank, 26-year-old Matt glanced up at his loving wife and nodded. Having waited helplessly on the transplant list for years, Matt had been deemed “too sick” to be eligible to receive a new pair of lungs. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today There, in his wife’s arms, he took his final breath.
“Our time together was perfect. I got my fairy tale,” Mallie tells 7Life of the whirlwind romance with her husband. “But if there is one thing I can do with Matt’s story, it is to encourage people to have to conversations about organ donation.
” After Matt died in Mallie’s arms, on April 5, 2017, she made it her mission to share his story — of his passion for life and his passion to help others. And she takes every opportunity she can to urge everyone to become an organ donor. The couple’s love story began online.
With Matt in Canberra and Mallie across the world in the US state of Texas, the budding photographers sparked a virtual friendship. They messaged back and forth, and soon exchanged Skype details so they could video call each other. “It was something that developed out of nothing,” Mallie says.
“I remember telling my mum that if this fellow lived closer I would marry him.” While Mallie sensed a romantic flare in their friendship, she wasn’t sure the feelings were mutual. The pa.
