Testimonials

Gemma Purchase

I am 19 and have recently been tossing up whether or not i should register myself as an organ and tissue donor. My mother recently registered and has been talking to us (the family) about it. After watching the show and tell segment last week on organ donation I decided to register myself as an organ donor. Allan & Kim Turner did a very brave thing to go on the show and talk about their unfortunate lose, you really made a difference! Thank you.

Therese

My sister has spent 18 yrs on a kidney dialyis machine. I have only spent 3yrs on dialyis untill I received my kidney transplant from another member of the family. Thank you Allan and Kim for your daughters amazing gift to the world. Your story made us cry and gave us hope that there is a future. With people like you around the world is a better place.

Sue from Darwin

Thank you for that moving story on organ donation. My husband received a donor heart in December 2002 and the gift of life was immeasurable. As with the illness of Zadie, my husband’s heart attack was totally unexpected, in fact he was at work. To be brief he was urgently air lifted to a Melbourne hospital (from Darwin) where after various surgical procedures he received the donor heart a few months later. He now leads a full and active life.

Thank you to every donor family. In our case this donor heart saved a husband, father, son, brother-in-law, uncle, friend etc. We all thank you.

Joan Gotthard

As a parent I have always hoped that , if faced with the death/ incapacitation of either of my children that I would have both the courage and generosity of spirit displayed by your guests last night on ’show and tell’

I think that as an adult, it is one thing to decide and give written assent to donate one’s own organs but an entirely different emotional holocaust to ‘give your child away’ even when you subscribe to the organ donation program.

Their love and compassion for humanity will be reflected in their rainbow shoe-lace remembrance which to me signifies not only hope for the future but also that such help is available to all, regardless of race, colour or creed.

I salute them!

Terri Green

We have had the experience of being both potential recipients as well as a donor family. Six years ago our 13 year old daughter’s health was rapidly declining due to cystic fibrosis. She was placed on the waiting list for a heart lung transplant but weighing just 30 kg and being O negative blood group her chances of finding a suitable donor were slim. Instead, she became a donor herself as we were able to donate her corneas after she died. At the time, this was one positive to come out of an otherwise tragic outcome. Organ donation can help parents to feel that their child’s life had a wider purpose as so eloquently and bravely expressed by tonight’s guests. Generosity and sharing in the midst of overwhelming grief gives us all hope for the future and faith in the strength of the human spirit.