Brown backs donor debate

[Lumps]

On a related topic could I appeal to people to consider registering with:

http://www.anthonynolan.org/What-you-can-do/Save-a-life/Online-application.aspx

It's a lot easier nowadays, no blood or bone-marrow samples required, they just send you a cheek-swab through the post, and you send it back.

I tried to do it myself the other day but the ungrateful bastards binned me off because I'm too old, (so only for the kids and the 30-somethings I'm afraid.

[Samdy Gray]

Cheers for the reminder Lumps, been meaning to register for a while.

My mum registered with them years back (I think they used to do it in conjunction with the blood donation service) and she ended up being a match for someone more than 20 years down the line.

[Nemo]

Got asked to donate Platelets a month or so back...not particularly against doing it but they asked me to pop down to my "local donor centre" aka the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Not terribly convenient that seeing as how I don't have a car.

Anyone done it?

[iffy]

On a related topic could I appeal to people to consider registering with:

http://www.anthonynolan.org/What-you-can-do/Save-a-life/Online-application.aspx

It's a lot easier nowadays, no blood or bone-marrow samples required, they just send you a cheek-swab through the post, and you send it back.

I tried to do it myself the other day but the ungrateful bastards binned me off because I'm too old, (so only for the kids and the 30-somethings I'm afraid.

Thanks for this. Been meaning to do it for years, and didn't know you could do it online, so have signed up. You might have saved a life there!

On the organ donation front, the sensible thing to do is think about where the supply of good organs comes from. You want a steady supply of young-ish, healthy-ish people. So I would set up a scheme where anyone buying a motorbike could get £25 off if they sign up for the organ donation register at the same time. Problem solved.