Having read your article in the Health and Wellbeing section, The donation dilemma no parents wants to live through (Monday, August 20), I feel compelled to speak up in defence of people such as my young cousin, Will, 29, who is desperately ill with cystic fibrosis and who now needs a double lung transplant.

Having read your article in the Health and Wellbeing section, The donation dilemma no parents wants to live through (Monday, August 20), I feel compelled to speak up in defence of people such as my young cousin, Will, 29, who is desperately ill with cystic fibrosis and who now needs a double lung transplant.

Will has spent his entire life in and out of hospital. His parents were told he would never reach the age of 30.

A few weeks ago he sent an e-mail to family and friends highlighting the need for organ donors and asking everyone actively to sign up (via the internet) to give their permission for donation of their organs in the event of their death.

The e-mail has already met with a tremendous response.

Athough giving permission for organ donation can be an incredibly hard decision for anyone to take, by doing so we can save the lives of young people who require a transplant.

Surely that is not too much to ask.

Michelle Rollo, The Old Inn, Fowlis Wester, Perthshire.