Claire Wineland
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican activist and author (1997-2018)
She built a foundation for families with cystic fibrosis while living with the disease herself, then documented her own double lung transplant on social media - surgery that was meant to save her life but led to her death at 21.
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Claire Lucia Wineland was born April 10, 1997, and lived with cystic fibrosis from the start. She co-wrote Every Breath I Take, Surviving and Thriving with Cystic Fibrosis with Chynna Bracha Levin, published in 2012. She founded Claire's Place Foundation to support other children and families navigating CF. As a speaker and social media presence, she turned her experience into advocacy. In 2018, at 21, she underwent a double lung transplant. A blood clot formed one week after the surgery. She died September 2, 2018.
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