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Insight: Feb 26

Host Jenny Brockie is moved to tears when a woman meets the recipient of her sister’s lungs for the first time.

This week, Insight explores the extraordinary stories of those who, moments from death, are saved by the generosity of a perfect stranger.

Host Jenny Brockie is moved to tears on episode exploring when a woman meets the recipient of her sister’s lungs for the first time.

Tham Lu, 51, was initially reluctant to donate her sister Aileen Nguyen’s organs after Aileen took her own life in March 2014. Ms Lu meets the recipient of her sister’s lungs, 51 year old Tracey Slatter, for the first time on this week’s episode.

“I hope you get comfort knowing that what you did has saved my life, made such a difference to my family”, Mrs Slatter tells Ms Lu in a meeting that even moved host Jenny Brockie to tears. “My kids have their mum back. My grandson has got a grandma, and it’s all because of you.”

Dan Price, 33, tells Insight he would have jumped from the Sydney Harbour Bridge at dawn one morning in December 2014, but for the instant rapport he felt with Constable Arun Trevitt, a general duties police officer who persuaded him to live.

“I asked him if we could share a cigarette, and then if we shared a cigarette, I’d step over the fence”, Mr Price explains to Brockie. “I had to see whether he really cared, whether he was prepared to do something out of the norm … He was the right guy to be there that morning.”

Marcel Latupeirissa, 43, and Genna Haines-Monaghan, 31, also meet on the show, for the first time since 2009 when Mr Latupeirissa’s leg was ripped off in a motorbike crash on a mountain road on New Zealand’s North Island. Ms Haines-Monaghan saved Mr Latupeirissa from bleeding to death by applying a makeshift tourniquet to the stump.

“She’s my angel… I always knew I would see her [again] … I wanted it to be face-to-face, and today was the day”, Mr Latupeirissa tells Insight.

Holocaust survivor, Ernie Friedlander won’t ever get that opportunity to meet the stranger who saved his life. Mr Friedlander, then 9 years old, and his mother were saved in 1944 in Hungary by a German soldier who told them how to escape and then looked the other way while they did.

“He would have been shot if they [the Nazis] would have found [out]. Maybe he was, I don’t know”, Mr Friedlander reflects on the stranger of whom he still thinks all the time. “I could never thank him enough, never.”

This week on Insight: When thank you is never enough.

Tuesday 26 February at 8.30pm on SBS.

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