'Billy couldn’t live, but he has helped so many others to do so. We’re very proud of that.”
The day he lost his life is one his parents, Ian and Elaine, remember well. Elaine said: “Isn’t it weird how I remember that day like it was yesterday? I got a phone call from the police asking me where I was and to stay there because they were on their way. My first thought was, ‘what have I done?’.
. Some hospitals were beginning to consider organ donation in these circumstances but this had not been established in Leeds.Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Ian and Elaine were determined to see some good come from the death of their son and as it turned out, Billy became a catalyst for widespread change. Ian said: “We just kept saying that they had to find a way for him to become a donor. We just couldn’t accept that a young, fit lad like our Billy was just going to go. There had to be something they could do.“We know that phone calls were put in to directors and other clinicians over the weekend and they all came in to the hospital.
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