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On Jan. 26, 2020, Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, that also claimed the lives of eight other people, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna. The following day, a video was posted to social media sites such as YouTube with the caption, Kobe Bryant Daughter Gianna Bryant Final Hours Before Death. The video appeared to show a person lying in a bed which was being wheeled down a hospital corridor, attended by various medical personnel: https://youtu.be/y6GcLf3QVEsHowever, all of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were pronounced dead at the scene, and none of them was transported to a hospital for treatment. The alleged clip of Gianna Bryant's final hours was actually a repurposed video that had been uploaded to YouTube on Sept. 4, 2019, several months before the crash that killed Kobe and Gianna Bryant: The description of that original video stated it depicted an honor walk for a 28-year-old woman named Ariana, who was declared brain dead after being struck by a car in Downey, California, on Aug. 28, 2019, and whose organs were subsequently donated to six different recipients: This description corresponds with various reports of a pedestrian accident that claimed the life of a person of the same name and age on that date. An honor walk is the name given to a ritual undertaken to show respect to patients at the end of life who are donating organs to others.
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