In memory of

Sam Berns

23 October 1996 — 9 January 2014

Providence · Foxboro

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Sampson Gordon Berns was an American activist with progeria, an extremely rare and fatal disease that causes the body to age rapidly. Berns helped raise awareness about the disease, and he was the subject of the HBO documentary Life According to Sam, which was first screened in January 2013.

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