Currently the system for retrieving donor organs is an opt in system, not only that if you carry a donor card your relatives can still say no as they are asked, and it is their consent that is considered paramount.

There has been and still is ongoing debates that we should go over to an opt out system, where while you are alive you should register your objections to your organs being used for transplantation.

In this country we have huge amounts of people waiting for donor organs, and most of those organs necessarily have to be cadaver donations, i.e hearts, lungs, liver as we all only have a single such organ.

The main types of living donations are kidney, blood and bone marrow. We can all live with just one kidney, and blood and bone marrow renew themselves fairly quickly.

So what do you think about transplantation, and how should the consent for this be done.

Despite everything we as a family have been through I am still undecided, I swing from one view to the other, I do believe that some on who has signed the organ donor card, or put their name on the database, should have his or her wishes adhered to, but it would be much easier if people spoke to each other about this, but of course speaking about death is very much taboo in our society. so how do we overcome this?

Then of course there is the problem if more donors came forward would the NHS be able to cope? The NHS seems to barely cope with the load that it has at the moment.