The Story Behind CPR Annie

From Snopes:Claim: The face of the CPR training mannequin was modeled after the deceased daughter of a Swedish doctor who invented it.Status: False. While there are many CPR dummies or mannequins on the market, the face of the one most widely used was modeled on that of an anonymous young woman whose body was fished from the Seine around the turn of the 20th century. It was believed she had taken her own life, but since she was never identified, no details of her life were known and the events leading to her demise remain a mystery.In 1958, Asmund Laerdal of Stavanger, Norway, a doll and toy maker by trade, began work on a life-like manikin for training people on mouth to mouth resuscitation. Inspired by the mask of the young girl who died so young, he commissioned the well-known sculptress Emma Mathiassen to model a manikin face in her likeness. Thus, the spirit of the Girl from the River Seine again came to life as Resusci Annie in 1960.