Carmen Mark, 18, (pictured above right, with her parents), fell into a three-week coma and died on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.

The Malaysian was a nursing student who first came to Singapore in April to study at Nanyang Polytechnic under a nursing scholarship from the National Heart Centre.

After her death and at her request, her organs were donated to five recipients in Singapore.

What happened:

On July 3, 2015, Carmen collapsed suddenly while having lunch in school and was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

An only child, her parents, mother Ariess Tan, 41, and father Mark Kok Wah, 44, rushed down from Penang to be with her.

Doctors discovered that she was suffering from an arterial rupture in her brain. Known as arteriovenous malformation (AVM), it is an abnormal tangle of thin-walled blood vessels in the brain.

Carmen was largely unconscious during the first 10 days in intensive care.

Her condition improved initially when she began showing signs of recovery and was moved out of intensive care.

But Carmen's condition deteriorated last week after she suffered a seizure, and she was moved back to intensive care where she died.

Her friends, lecturer and parents remember her as a "cheerful and helpful" girl.

And her act of donating her organs is helping her parents cope with their loss.

From The Straits Times:

Mr Mark said his daughter's decision to donate her organs has given him and his wife a sense of closure.

"We feel a lot better, actually," he said. "These five recipients are alive and having her organs in them we feel there's still some part of her around. Our daughter did something good. Now five lives can move on in Singapore."

H/T The Straits Times

Top photo courtesy of Mark Koh Wah via The Straits Times

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