{"id":86866,"date":"2026-03-26T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86866"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:39:30","slug":"pensioner-84-becomes-britains-oldest-donor-and-saves-his-son-in-laws-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/pensioner-84-becomes-britains-oldest-donor-and-saves-his-son-in-laws-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner, 84, becomes Britain&#8217;s oldest donor &#8211; and saves his son-in-law&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/03\/26\/01\/107422059-15679897-Graham_Sisson_right_from_Chapel_en_le_Frith_Derbyshire_donated_t-m-46_1774489501675.jpg\" alt=\"Graham Sisson (right), from Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, donated the organ to Ian Tonks (left), 49, of nearby Buxton, in October 2024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An 84-year-old pensioner has become Britain&#8217;s oldest donor after giving a kidney to his son-in-law &#8211; and saving his life.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15679897\/Pensioner-84-Britains-oldest-donor-saves-son-laws-life.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An 84-year-old pensioner has become Britain&#8217;s oldest donor after giving a kidney to his son-in-law &#8211; and saving his life. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tonks-Kidney-transplant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86868,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86866\/revisions\/86868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}