Organ donation with Dr Phillip Sargent of Donate Life Queensland, Australia

by Rebecca Levingston | 612 ABC Brisbane

(Image: Reuters, Fabrizio Bensch )

How heart-warming is it that when someone dies, they're prepared to allow others to live, through donating their organs?

That is what is expected to happen today, with Senior Constable Damien Leeding.

But how does this work? How many lives can be saved, in one death? What organs can be transplanted and what ones can't?

Dr Phillip Sargent is the State Medical Director of Donate Life Queensland.

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