Granddad turns 80 more than 30 years after heart transplant that was supposed to last 5

mirror.co.uk:

A great-grandad has celebrated his 80th birthday more than three decades after a heart transplant. Eddie Tierney was 44 when he had the op in 1984 – and surgeons warned him the organ may last only five years.

But 36 years later he is still going strong and yesterday welcomed a new law which means everyone in England is assumed to be an organ donor, unless they opt out.

Max and Keira’s Law is named after Max Johnson, 12, of Winsford, Cheshire, and his heart donor Keira Ball, nine, who died in a car accident near her home in Barnstaple, Devon, in 2017.

The Mirror campaigned for four years to bring it to the statute book. Eddie lives in Wales, where the opt-out system has been in place since 2015. “It is a good idea as far I’m concerned,” said