I don't like the idea of someone coming and taking my organs when I die, they're mine. I might feel different if I was allowed to give blood but some genius decided to change the law so that people who suffer black outs can't donate, this is despite the fact that we're not contagious. If I can't give blood when I'm alive and willing why should I give organs when I'm dead and unable to protest? Surely whatever prevented me from giving blood ought to prevent me from donating something else.

The most painful thing was watching a kid I knew from dancing face leukaemia, every one of us teachers took the test and signed onto the register, I was a close match and signed the forms to say I would donate if nothing else came up soon only to be told they weren't going to harvest from me anyway, she was 5. She got forced to wait for 4 more months for a donor from the register when she had a visitor come every week with just the cells she needed and someone who wanted to give.

I don't have anything she can catch, I'm young, fit and reasonably healthy. I've had health professionals sigh at the insanity of it all but I can't donate while I'm alive, not even to save a 5 year old from 4 months of chemo she didn't have to go through.

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