To all of you potential liver transplants who are talking about aging out: Good news! Stop worrying about aging out. I am 3+ years-post-liver transplant and when I first arrived at Mayo I, too, was of the belief that at 73 I was close to being too old to be considered as a good candidate for transplant. I also was worried that if I got a liver, that I might deprive a younger person awaiting a liver who might have longer to live after transplant and perhaps young children to raise. The Transplant Team in Jacksonville dispelled that fear. Basically they said, "That's not the way this works." The important factors in a patient's eligibility are physical condition and a lack of medical problems of such a serious nature that they would preclude a successful transplant. Post transplant, while I was recuperating at Gabriel House, I met at least one liver patient awaiting transplant who was over 80 at that time and who eventually got his new liver and did well. Perhaps this is a Mayo standard, but I don't think that the organizations who govern transplant selections are discriminating on the basis of age.