There are more than 10,000 people in need of a transplant in Britain, and each day three people die because of the lack of donors. For the first time television cameras have followed the organ transplant process right from when the decision is made to donate, until the recipients are recovering.
Penny was brought into St George's hospital in London after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
"At first she thought it was just a headache, minutes later she was screaming in pain," explained her husband Cyril.
Ten days later Penny was declared brain stem dead, at 65.
Of the 1,500 people who die each day in the UK, Penny was one of only three that were donors.
Penny's husband Cyril said she had always made it clear to her family that she wanted to donate her organs.
"She always believed that organs are lent to you in a strange sort of way and that if they can be used after death they have to be, there was no maybe as far as she was concerned, they had to be."
Penny's husband Cyril said she had always made it clear to her family that she wanted to donate her organs.
"She always believed that organs are lent to you in a strange sort of way and that if they can be used after death they have to be, there was no maybe as far as she was concerned, they had to be."
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