Organ donation 'helps families to heal'

 97 per cent say decision meant that loved one's death wasn't 'senseless'

Doctors with qualms about asking for organ donations from critically ill people should take heart from a new study, says a donor.

Pia Henriksson of North Vancouver, whose son's organs saved five lives, supports a new B.C. study that shows 97 per cent of donor families are glad they gave.

"Len's death wasn't senseless. That is what is so powerful. It paid a huge part in healing our grief," Henriksson said yesterday.

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