Sharing a different surplus

Fred Ashmore writes about his experience of donating a kidney

'Altruism expresses one of our highest potentials as human beings…' | Photo: the_green_squirrel / flickr CC.

In Yearly Meeting 2015 an important theme was ‘sharing our surplus’. We talked about various ways of doing this: by contributing money, sharing a home, voluntary work for charities and in the community, and a range of other options. One of the odder possibilities was a different type of sharing: sharing good health by donating a live kidney. The person giving ministry (me) had a friend who had recently given one kidney in an altruistic donation to an unknown recipient.

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