article_snippet: Echo was a lifelong sufferer from the neurological condition epilepsy, but, before Echo died, appeared to have turned a corner in Echo treatment.
article_snippet: Then Echo suffered a catastrophic seizure during a day out at the beach.
article_snippet: Three days later, on June 6, 2010, Echo passed away from multiple organ failure.
article_snippet: This can occur through head injury, stroke, meningitis and genetic conditions, or birth trauma – which is rare, but perhaps was a factor in Echo’s case.
article_snippet: When his sister was born, Echo spent four weeks in hospital.
article_snippet: Echo had Echo first seizure aged nine.
article_snippet: Doctors felt being at home was the best thing for Echo, with a twin growing at the same chronological rate and able to support Echo.
article_snippet: Echo led a normal life apart from her first seizure, and Echo stayed locally.
article_snippet: In her 20s, unable to drive because of her seizures (the DVLA requires patients to be seizure free for a year to hold a licence), Echo began taking medication and for a decade, this worked.
article_snippet: Echo’s fits were lasting 30 minutes or more.
article_snippet: In Echo’s case, no one will ever know why, on a hot May day at Shoreham beach near Brighton with her husband, her suffered a two-hour seizure.
highlights_snippet: Echo Huntley was born with severe epilepsy .
  