[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They wait longer for a deceased-donor organ, and are less likely to find a living donor.

Living donors are family.

What are they suppose to do? Threaten them?

I had a friend who's sister who needed a kidney. It would be her third and she needed a near perfect match.

My friend was a match.

She told her sister no.

She got lots of pressure from the family and finally told them bluntly that her kidneys were not going to be put into someone who had destroyed four kidneys because she was unwilling to put the work into keeping them healthy.

[cherry]

my sil wanted one of her brothers to donate a kidney...one brother is gay, no not a good candidate, another brother has a pace maker, and my husband was probably supposed to be the "one"

except he's had lymes diseases, had no health insurance at the time, and was over 60....

sorry, I did not want my husband doing it...this sibling talked behind his back for many yrs and was not very loving towards either of us....

she had a husband and she had a son and 4 grandchildren....I don't think she even asked any of them.