LISA Orsi's legacy will live on in the decision to donate her organs, mourners at the young Derry woman's funeral were told yesterday.
Friends placed roses before the altar in memory of the 22-year-old who died from extreme altitude sickness while trekking in Indonesia.
A packed congregation was told how her death brought life to many others.
Mourners wept openly as Lisa's remains were carried into the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Derry's Waterside.
Lisa's body arrived back in Ireland earlier this week after she collapsed following a trip to a volcano on February 20.
She had been working as a physiotherapist in Singapore and had travelled to Indonesia for a holiday.
A founding member of the Singapore Lions GAA club, she was pronounced dead last Friday after her organs were donated to save others.
Her family has been told Lisa's death meant new life for up to 50 other people.
The tragedy attracted international headlines as she became the first westerner to donate organs in Singapore.
Donegal priest and close family friend Fr Pat McGarvey described Lisa as an "angel".
The Fanad parish priest said her true legacy would be the decision by others to fill in the necessary forms to donate their own organs, transforming people's lives.
"Every day after they think of the people who donated their organs," Fr McGarvey said.
Before yesterday's Requiem Mass, Lisa's parents Dennis and Sharon paid tribute to their daughter as "one in a million."
Mr Orsi said: "I was very proud, we were both very proud of Lisa. She just affected everybody she ever met."
He said that even though his daughter had been taken from him, so many other people had gained from her death.
"We are so proud of her in her life and in her death."
Yellow ribbons were tied to lamp-posts around her home and the Church of the Immaculate Conception during yesterday funeral.
Following Requiem Mass, Lisa was laid to rest in a wicker coffin at Massmount cemetery, Fanavolty, Co Donegal.
* FINAL JOURNEY: Lisa Orsi's remains arriving at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Derry yesterday. Lisa, top left, died after falling ill while climbing when on a short holiday with friends in Indonesia MAIN PICTURE: Margaret McLaughlin