Summary
I know people worry about organ donation. And most of my friends who are still in their twenties, as I am, don't think about death, disease and organ donation anyway. My boyfriend said that he hadn't signed his organ donor card because he was 'kinda hoping not to die'. What, never? (I made him sign it.) But for those who want to donate their organs, the biggest barrier is the fact that their relatives don't know their wishes.
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Your Organs Are Vital
I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in August 1996, when I was 17. Twenty minutes before the diagnosis I was on top of the world: I had just passed my A-levels and was looking forward to a long summer holiday before going up to Oxford. Then my kidney specialist informed me that without treatment I would have renal failure within three months.
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