Bingo!
Even though this Daily Mail story is intended to portray the sister as selfish and uncaring (even cruel), it unwittingly portrays her brother and his wife as self-pitying grandstanders, dragging their family feuds into the public square.
It also occurs to me that Helen may have legitimate reasons to decline being a donor -- such as an undisclosed HIV-positive test or other confidential medical condition. What the Daily Mail has said about her almost amounts to libel.
Very succinctly put. Dead on.
Could be, but not necessarily.
I have been blessed with a cousin who, I have absolutely no doubt, would be more than happy to refuse me or various other family members the gift of life.
She is mean and crazy and is a person to be avoided.
She has single-handedly caused more pain and suffering in our little town, especially within our family, than I ever knew was possible to be created by one woman.
She, too, would be immune to the suffering of the children who will lose a parent if she were to refuse to help the father.
I know this because listed amongst a litany of other spiteful, hateful, well-planned, and damaging actions carried out through the years toward her favorite enemy de jour is the time she purposely hurt my child in order to hurt me.
Some people have their own secret mental/emotional motivators which are beyond the comprehension of those of us who are within a normal range of emotional balance.