Families of organ donors urged to respect their dying wishes ...

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Families of organ donors are being urged to respect their relatives' dying wishes.
Health service bosses said that in 15% of cases where someone has signed up to be a donor after death, their relatives have vetoed this.

Last year in Scotland 43 people died while awaiting an organ transplant, with doctors believing they could have been helped if the families of five people who were on the organ donor register had not overturned their decision after death.

Transplant teams will never remove organs if a person's family objects, even if they were on the donor register prior to their death. In a bid to boost transplant rates, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have now launched the Respect My Dying Wish campaign, urging people to tell their loved ones about their decision to donate their organs and to ask them to respect that.

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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}

Source: http://donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com/2012/10/families-of-organ-donors-urged-to.html

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