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When I first saw her, I thought she was out for a swim in a wetsuit. But as we got nearer, we saw she was fully dressed, lying on her back gently sculling the water with her hands. We hesitated: we knew this scene wasn’t right.


Then we heard her: “Help, please, I don’t want to die.”

We ran to the shoreline. I shouted over: “We are here, you are not going to die, we won’t let that happen. Can you swim to us?”

It quickly became apparent from her distress that she had gone out there with the intention of drowning herself, but had then changed her mind.

The whole episode took 30 minutes, but the odd coincidence of it still makes it feel like a scene from an unfeasible movie in my mind. Every day, I think of the stranger who saved my life; I never contemplated that I would be able to save a stranger in return. That evening one of my friends texted me back to say: “Your donor was able to give yet another gift to this world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/08/experience-i-saved-a-womans-life