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The gift of organ donation is the start of a physical and emotional journey for you as a recipient and for your family and friends as you recover and look forward toa better life. Your donor’s family are coming to terms with life without their loved one and many take great comfort from the knowledge that their last act was to save lives through the gift of organ donation.  \nDonor families tell us that receiving a letter from their loved one’s recipient is a great comfort and makes them feel that their gift has been truly appreciated. 90% of donor families state that they would like to hear from the person who received their loved one’s donation, so you can be confident your donor family are hoping to hear from you.  \n2  \n“There are now four people alive because of Beth and weare so proud of that. It was just fantastic to get the letter from the recipient. To think that something good had come from this was tremendous.”  \nBeth’s parents  \nElla’s Mum was a donor, she received a Christmas card from the daughter of oneof her recipients. It said ‘thank you for letting your mum help my mum’.  \n“It meant the world to me. Nothing will take away the pain of losing someone you love, but to know that another family still have a mum because of my mum’s gift, it is just so incredible.”  \nElla  \nJane received a lung transplant and she and her daughter have written to her donor family.  \n“After my transplant, I was poorly for a long time. But as soon as I began to recover, I knew I wanted to write. It was difficult at first, what should I say?  \nBut as soon as I did it I knew it was the right thing to do. I wanted to let them know that my children had their mum because of the decision they bravely made.”  \nJane  \nFinding the words:  \nFacing anxieties that can stop you writing to your donor family  \nWe know that writing can feel daunting and finding the right words can be difficult. Remember, your letter is about thanking and acknowledging your donor family, it is not an English exam! Simply say what you feel: it does not matter if your communication is long or short, the fact you have written will mean so much. If you feel nervous writing your Recipient Coordinator will be happy to help you or perhaps you could involve a family member and include their thoughts about how your transplant has affected the whole family.  \n“There is no need for guilt when a gift is freely given.”  \nSusan, donor mum  \n“from our point of view our child did not have to die to give someone their life back, instead tragically our child had died and we then had a choice, whether to give someone else life or not”  \nSusan, donor mum  \nMany recipients worry that writing will add to their donor family’s grief or that talking of their hopes for a new and better life would be inappropriate when their donor family are grieving. Please know that this is not the case. Every family has the choice of when to open your letter so it will never be read at the wrong time. Donor families make the brave decision to support donation because they want their loved one to save others. Your news will show they have achieved this and most take great comfort from that knowledge.  \nTrevor received a letter from one of the recipients of his wife’s donation explaining that “she had given them their life back.”Trevor said: “It was such a tremendous source of comfort. It was not such a complete loss.”  \nTrevor, donor family member  \n“ Not hearing from any of the 12 recipients of Will’s organs for the first 16 months after his death was so upsetting. Everybody tells me it is because the organ recipients don’t know what to write or are worried they may upset us. But they all need to know that when you lose a loved one being ignored is the very worst thing. 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