Nearly one year after the Humboldt Broncos crash, the family of Logan Boulet is reflecting on his legacy of inspiring others to register as organ donors.
Published Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:46PM EDT
Boulet, 21, suffered fatal injuries in the April 6, 2018 crash. When doctors told his family he would never recover, they chose to fulfill his wish of being an organ donor – he had registered just five weeks earlier, on his birthday. In the following weeks, that donation inspired more than 100,000 people to sign up to do the same, in what was later dubbed the “Logan Boulet effect.”In honour of Boulet, April 7 will beThe summer before he died, Boulet had told his father Toby that he had wanted to be an organ donor because his late mentor and fitness trainer Rick Suggit had been one.Suggit had died suddenly in 2017.
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