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  Opting out should be the order of the day - every day. The problem is that even now, if a person has expressed a wish to donate their organs, eyes, skin or whatever, their relatives can still overturn that decision, which I think is very wrong.
  
  Jean has kidney failure and had a transplant in December 2003, which failed due to "hospital acquired infections" at Guys hospital. It really was the dirtiest hospital we had ever seen.
  
  She was on the transplant list until last year (7 years) when they took her off because she was (is) too weak for an operation.
  
  Naturally I am dead against the status quo and would encourage anyone and everyone to donate their organs after their death and no interference from relatives.
  You can of course donate kidneys before you die, even to strangers.
  
  There surely, can be no greater gift, than the gift of life and being an organ donor, does just that.
  
  Another thought on kidney failure is that they have not failed through lifesyle (too much drinking or too much smoking) just bad luck.
  
  
  
  Roger

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