An appearance on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline led to a record increase in organ donor card requests in Ireland.
[4] James Walton of The Daily Telegraph described The Passion as "exactly the kind of intelligent and engaging drama you'd expect from a series written by Frank Deasy".
[6] Father & Son features a character, Barrington Smith, who suffers from kidney malfunction and must escape from prison to find a cure.
[3] He also wrote films and had a co-credit on Miramax's Prozac Nation, featuring Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange and Lou Reed.
[1][12] Deasy said: "I am only one of thousands of patients on organ transplant lists in Britain, living on our own, invisible, death row".
[15] Later that day, he appeared on Joe Duffy's Liveline programme on RTÉ Radio 1 appealing for more organ donors and insisting that it was a "very urgent matter".
[13] The Evening Herald carried Deasy's story on 16 September, one day before his death in The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
[16][17] The figures had risen to 10,000 one day after Deasy's death, three times the amount usually received during an annual appeal.
[18] Mark Murphy, CEO of the Irish Kidney Association, praised Deasy's "selflessness" during his final days alive.
[...] Whenever I spent time or talked with Frank I always felt the warmth, wisdom and sheer joy of life that I remember getting from my own father.