Meagan and Paul Sobolik are a couple from Iowa who tragically recently lost their one year-old daughter to a sudden illness. Now, a video is going viral of their beloved daughter’s trip to the operating room to become an organ donor, as staffers at the hospital lined up to sing “Amazing Grace” for her.

Coralynn “Cora” Eve Sobolik had sadly been alive for just one year when she passed away from a respiratory illness called parainfluenza in April of 2019. When Cora started having problems breathing, her parents rushed her to the emergency room. When her symptoms became too much for the ER to handle, she was sedated and transferred to the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for more treatment. Unfortunately, Cora’s heart stopped beating while medical staff attempted CPR on her tiny body for 25 minutes while her parents looked on helplessly.

The 25 minutes without oxygen meant the Cora would suffer severe brain damage. When doctors told Meagan and Paul that she was brain dead, they were devastated.

“I dropped to my knees and cried and kept saying, ‘No, no, no, God, no.’ I then felt numb and felt empty,” Meagan said.

Though Cora’s brain was dead, the fact that she was hooked up to life support meant that her other organs were still functioning. Her parents then made the agonizing decision to donate her organs to people who needed them.

“There is now no chance of our little girl recovering but she is still with us and is in the process of organ donation,” Meagan wrote on Facebook. “She became an angel today but tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon she will go into surgery and become a superhero and give the wonderful gift of life to up to eight different people that are in desperate need of these organs. We have tonight to be with Cora and will give her the most love we have ever given her yet.”

When Meagan and Paul accompanied Cora down the hall to donate her organs, doctors, nurses, and staff lined up against the walls and sang “Amazing Grace” for her.

“I was speechless, and it was truly wonderful to see and feel so much love and support for our little girl,” Meagan said. “The doctor that took care of her came in on his day off to the be the first in line and also the last one to be with us when they shut the elevator doors to take her to surgery. The nursing staff was amazing to us … They gave us so much comfort and support while we were there, it was amazing.”

In the touching video, Meagan can be heard telling Cora, “You get to save three people. I love you forever.”

Cora’s organs ended up saving three lives, with her heart going to a one-year-old boy, her liver to a one-year-old girl, and both of her kidneys to a 41-year-old woman.

“She is going to be living on within three different people. She isn’t really gone, she lives on in her legacy,” Meagan said. “When your child donates their organs, they live on in someone else [and] they are saving people that otherwise [might] not be saved without your child’s gifts.”

Watch the emotional video for yourself below.

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