Mother denied daughter's organs

[Sweetpea]

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.

[Bruv]

Jobsworth comes to mind.

I found this one very strange indeed.

[poppy]

It doesn't say if the need was greater in those that did receive them or not, it is possible that the life expectancy without was less than that of the mother.
well you know what I am trying to say.
I agree with you Sweet, that I would have been way to distraught to think about who got what bits , if I had just lost a daughter.

[Bernie]

Surely if the daughter had made her feeling known which she had, she said she wanted her mum to get a kidney her wishes should have been followed. After all people do donate organs to relatives, another thing is the child. If anything happens to the mother now what is going to happen to her???

[Hekna]

I would be annoyed if the person had agreed to donating the kidney only for the hospital to ignore that wish. But I can see that for most parents that would be the last thing on their mind.