Six-year-old Emily was about to have her organs donated to four strangers by her parents.

Raven Goff, who was six years old, never met a stranger. She would just call you “friend” if she didn’t know your name. Her family remembers how kind she was and how she always cared more about other people than herself. Giving things away sometimes meant she had to make several trips to Target to get new ones, like her winter coat.

Raven’s mum, Tanner Trujillo, said, “I don’t know how many coats I had to buy for her because she would take it to school and give it away.” “When I asked her where her coat was, she’d say, ‘Well, you know Katie or whoever needed a coat because she was cold.'” When I asked her if we could get it back tomorrow, she said, “No, I gave it to her.” It was a present.

Raven always acts like this. At the time, no one knew that it was also a beautiful sign of the impact she would leave behind. Raven Goff’s father, Shane Goff, said, “She is the most kind, caring, loving, and compassionate person I have ever met in my whole life.”

Raven’s life took a terrible turn on January 11 after a terrible accident. When she got to Cook Children’s Medical Centre, doctors jumped right to work, but the little girl with blonde hair and big blue eyes could not be saved. Raven’s family asked Cook Children’s to keep the details of her accident a secret, and they agreed. She had a terrible injury, and her brain was no longer working.

Dani Ransonette, RN, came in for her shift as a bedside nurse in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) that night. When the day shift staff was done in Raven’s room, she looked over her chart.
“Make sure you’re ready for what you’re going to see,” Dani told them as they stood in a PICU room that was vacant. “We always say, ‘I can only guess,’ but you can’t. We can’t really picture sadness that strong in our minds.

Dani has worked at Cook Children’s for 22 years, but this made her cry when she talked about it. She talks about how hard it is to see families on the worst day of their lives. She understands because she has kids herself.

“I knew it was bad.” “I knew that from other times when I was in a similar situation that being honest is valued,” Dani said. “I think that’s when they (the parents) start to deal with things.”

The harsh truth was becoming clear to Tanner and Shane.

Every question we asked was asked more than once because we didn’t always get an answer the first, second, or even third time. There was only one right answer, and everyone knew what would happen. “No one gave me false hope,” Tanner said.

“It was just the heartache and real heartbreak I was going through,” Shane said. “Every second I was in that building, I felt God with me.” They soon heard a question that no parent should ever hear: “Have you thought about organ donation.

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“I never had any doubts or second thoughts about it.” He said, “If someone can use Raven or help in any way, that was the end.” Family and friends were with Tanner and Shane, who are both divorced and married again, as they decided to give Raven the gift of life to other people.