A mother who urgently needs a kidney transplant has branded the system which denied her the organs of her dying daughter as "ridiculous".
Laura Ashworth, 21, from Bierley, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, died on 2 April, two days after an asthma attack.
Her mother Rachel Leake, 39, has kidney failure, but Ms Ashworth's kidneys were given to strangers.
Despite her personal wish to help her mother Ms Ashworth's organs went to others on the transplant waiting list.
Ms Ashworth, the mother of a two-year-old girl, was on the NHS Organ Donor Register, which records a person's wish to donate organs after death. She had also told her mother she would be prepared to be a "living donor", but had not begun the formal process.
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I'm sorry, if my daughter had died, I would not be thinking 'oh, I could have her kidneys'. I would not be thinking rationally at all.
I can also see that you wait your turn.
The only thing is, the match would probably have been good.
Quite tasteless, the whole thing.