My mother was the recepient of a kidney transplant because someone on their driver's license was registered as a donor. If it wasn't for that person my mother would have still have to go to dialysis 3 times a week for 2-3 hours each time. As a child I saw how having kidney failure can effect your quality of life. She did not drink, smoke, or do drugs. We do not why her kidneys failed. She had her transplant more than 10 years ago and is still happy and healthy. She works as a nurse in a post/pre op surgery unit for heart patients.

As far as I know the transplant waiting list is done by how well your blood type, and a number of how other factors match up. If anything ever happened to me and everything was done to keep me alive. I would gladly donate my organs to someone else. You could be giving not just one person, but also a family a way to have a better life.