Aurora Masters, a 5-year-old Fort Collins, Colorado girl, will be buried Saturday, one month after she died after being strangled by the rope of a disc swing in a backyard accident.
Aurora’s family are finding solace in the knowledge that her organ donation will ensure her heart “keeps beating somewhere.”
Her great-aunt, Brenda Kennedy, told Fox News Digital that the brave little girl “lived her best life every day.”
“She made the world a better place by living, loving and being in it,” Kennedy said Thursday. “That’s the lesson! Teach your children to be kind, to be loving and to consume life to the fullest.”
“Unfortunately, this was a tragic accident,” Kennedy continued, “and we all want to come to terms and say, if only we had done this, or if only we had done this, this would not have happened.” [But] In life tragedies happen.”
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Five-year-old Aurora Masters of Fort Collins, Colorado, died on May 8 after being strangled by the rope of a disc swing. (Provided by family)
“She gave me a kiss and a hug and then walked out,” her mother, Crystal Masters, said. He told KUSA Events on May 8“This is a normal situation. This is life. She was just playing.”
Just 15 minutes after the girl had been outside, a neighbour told her mother that something terrible had happened.
“I saw my daughter in a tree with a swing around her neck,” her mother said.
“I begged, please stop, she’s a good girl, just stop,” her father, Tom Masters, told the outlet, recalling his thoughts at the time.
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Aurora Masters “lived her best life every day,” her great-aunt, Brenda Kennedy, told Fox News Digital. (Provided by family)
According to a GoFundMe effort, the lack of oxygen caused the little girl to suffer permanent brain damage, and after an MRI showed she had no chance of recovery, the family elected to transition to end-of-life care and organ donation on May 11. Aurora died on May 13 at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Aurora’s family said her organs were donated to the Donor Alliance, an organization that “facilitates the organ and tissue donation process for transplant throughout Colorado and Wyoming.”
“I know my daughter’s heart is beating somewhere,” the girl’s mother told KUSA. “Knowing that really helps us.”
“I’m proud of my daughter,” she continued. “I was already proud of her, but she keeps giving and that helps me a little bit.”
“Our hearts are broken, but we continue our journey to honor and celebrate her earthly talents,” the GoFundMe statement said.
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Aurora Masters’ funeral will be held on June 8th. (Provided by family)
In a series of updates about the effort, the girl was remembered as a “ray of sunshine” with “ninja-like courage”.
“She had such a charming personality and such a bright disposition, she was just so radiant and radiant and smiling,” Tom Masters told KUSA.
“She was standing in traffic, waving and smiling at people, trying to get them to smile too, and she’d say, ‘Dad, they’re smiling,'” Crystal Masters told the outlet.
Videos posted on the girl’s memorial page and on social media show Aurora freestyling and dancing, her mother said. The Denver Post “There wasn’t a day that went by without dancing.”
Aurora Masters’ mother said her five-year-old daughter loved to dance and had dance parties “every day.” (Provided by family)
Aurora’s father would take her to local open mic nights, where she would clap and sing along with the performers and become known as the “music baby,” family members recalled.
The child’s mother told media that the disc swing was installed because it was considered “very safe”.
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“I would say to parents, love every minute of your kids, have dance parties and just live life because you never know when it’s going to be gone,” her mother told the outlet.
