Donate for someone else’s benefit, not your own | Short letters

I was reading Zoe Williams’ article (If I Give A Kidney Away Will It Make Me A Better Person?, March 18) the day I got my second blood test result within a week, because I have a chronic have kidney disease and it is failing rapidly. Will donation make someone a better person? Only the donor can answer that, but it will certainly make the recipient a better, healthier and very grateful person. At the very least, make sure you have a donor card with you.
Helen Taylor
Halesowen, West Midlands

Shortly after I was wheeled into the heart operating room for emergency angioplasty, the soothing Keith Richards riff in the Rolling Stones’ Start Me Up began to play (Letters, March 20). I’ve loved playing it on guitar ever since.
Warren Kovach
Pentraeth, Anglesey

I answered: “Everything classical” when asked what music I would like to hear during my angioplasty treatment. After a hasty discussion, I had to endure two hours of Simon and Garfunkel on repeat.
Bob Epton
Brigg, Lincolnshire

For once in a decade, your financial editor has made a mistake. Ice cream is emphatically not a “seasonal product” in this household (Schumacher’s plan to divest Unilever’s ice creams has a very familiar flavor, March 19).
Prof Dominic Regan
Bath

Your article on sourdough versus the rest (Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class, March 20) was interesting. However, I must say that white bread, with its spongy texture, makes the very best egg bread. Grandchildren agree.
Christine Walters
Buxton, Derbyshire