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My donor was a 20 year old male from Germany. The process for donating stem cells (from the blood) is considerably less of a problem than donating cells derived from the marrow. I am not sure but I don't think there was any cost for the donor.

You have mentioned twice, "he died a horrible death". I understand it might be difficult to explain and feel free to ignore. What were the complications for your brother? Was the transplant successful for a period of time? Did he have other health problems beside leukemia? What kind of leukemia did he have? Was it decided that his death was caused by the transplant or the persistence of the leukemia? He must have been in a serious condition before they tried the last resort of the transplant.