NATIONAL appeals mean growing numbers of people now carry cards agreeing to donate organs for transplant after their death.

But Steven Norrie is about to carry selflessness to a whole new level.

Motivated solely by a desire to help, the healthy father-of-three is to donate one of his kidneys to a complete stranger.

Whereas the majority of such transplants involve relatives or friends, Steven is going under the surgeon’s knife simply so his kidney can go “to just whoever needs it.”

He says he is not particularly religious but that with a “nice life, good job, enough money, beautiful kids, a good ex-wife and a loving family, it’s nice to be able to do something for someone else.”

What a fantastically generous attitude.

In the past year apparently the number of such altruistic organ donations across the UK has risen from 23 to 40.

In a world where we read every day about man’s inhumanity to man, how wonderful that there is a growing (albeit still tiny) number of people willing to make such a huge personal sacrifice to enrich the life of a fellow human being.