Would You Sell One?

[Skiptown]

A doctor in Austrailia has suggested that people be able to sell organs for transplants. He suggested $47,000 for kidney. Opponents said it will just make to poor sell organs to the rich.
Several of us were talking about this and I asked who would sell a kidney for $47,000 and had no takers. I then said how about $150,000 and few siad "hell yes".
So would you sell an organ and how much money would move you to sell?
As for me if I ever give up a kidney it will be for free and to someone I know, love and care very much about.

[drewl]

Originally Posted by Skiptown

A doctor in Austrailia has suggested that people be able to sell organs for transplants. He suggested $47,000 for kidney. Opponents said it will just make to poor sell organs to the rich.
Several of us were talking about this and I asked who would sell a kidney for $47,000 and had no takers. I then said how about $150,000 and few siad "hell yes".
So would you sell an organ and how much money would move you to sell?
As for me if I ever give up a kidney it will be for free and to someone I know, love and care very much about.

I'd sell my apenndix for $100K.. oh wait.. doh! They already took that... Now if I only had a brain...

[FrankRN]

I have one of the rarer blood types, so my kidney would have to go for $225K. But I would do it for a very significant amount of cash.

[taotoon]

I would do it to help someone in need and the added money would be great but not 100% necessary for the decision to be made.

[Dan-0]

I would sell one of my "cojones" if the price were right!

[penalipee]

Ya...I think 100K would be enough for me to sell a kidney.

[Skiptown]

Originally Posted by Dan-0

I would sell one of my "cojones" if the price were right!

Hey I would sell one of your cajones if the price were right too.

[Ziggy]

If anyone is willing to donate a kidney please let me know. My wife is waiting, quite impatiently at this point, for one. This is why she rarely accompanies me to Mexico. The insurance won't pay for dialysis out of the country, even though there is brand spanking new dialysis center in the PDC area. Without insurance dialysis treaments are approximately $3,000 each multiplied by three times a week. Big ouch!
BTW, she is O Positive.

[Ziggy]

I'm sure most people know this but I will let you know that selling organs in the USA is against the law. However, many other countries do allow it. It was recently outlawed in the Phillipines because so many people were selling organs that the health system of the country couldn't cope with the number of transplant surgeries and their after care. For $100,000 you could have gotten a transplant and a whopping $2,000 went to the donor.

[Trish]

Originally Posted by Ziggy

If anyone is willing to donate a kidney please let me know. My wife is waiting, quite impatiently at this point, for one. This is why she rarely accompanies me to Mexico. The insurance won't pay for dialysis out of the country, even though there is brand spanking new dialysis center in the PDC area. Without insurance dialysis treaments are approximately $3,000 each multiplied by three times a week. Big ouch!
BTW, she is O Positive.

I hope that your wife's wait isn't too much longer. I can understand her impatience... Positive thoughts coming your way!

[Heather]

Hmmm....I think I might consider it. But I'm only A+.

[BonnyW]

Originally Posted by FrankRN

I have one of the rarer blood types, so my kidney would have to go for $225K. But I would do it for a very significant amount of cash.

You and me both...let me guess...AB-?

[BonnyW]

Originally Posted by Ziggy

If anyone is willing to donate a kidney please let me know. My wife is waiting, quite impatiently at this point, for one. This is why she rarely accompanies me to Mexico. The insurance won't pay for dialysis out of the country, even though there is brand spanking new dialysis center in the PDC area. Without insurance dialysis treaments are approximately $3,000 each multiplied by three times a week. Big ouch!
BTW, she is O Positive.

((HUGS))

[Daddy B]

Creating a market for the sale of human organs creates monstruosities such as this.

More on the subject here.

In countries where the death penalty exists the risk of expediting convenient convictions and execution of sentences could lead to serial abuse.
That, coupled to the inexistence of legal resort in the reopening of cases to ascertain potential miscarriages of justice aggravates the possible human right's violations.

[Just Lucky]

Originally Posted by Daddy B

Creating a market for the sale of human organs creates monstruosities such as this.

More on the subject here.

In countries where the death penalty exists the risk of expediting convenient convictions and execution of sentences could lead to serial abuse.
That, coupled to the inexistence of legal resort in the reopening of cases to ascertain potential miscarriages of justice aggravates the possible human right's violations.

I'm glad you brought that up. It's not just China:

CHISINAU (Tiraspol Times) - The buying and selling of organs is a huge business for Europe's poorest country, Moldova. According to organ trafficking specialists, Moldova is one of the key suppliers to the world organ trade and Moldovan kidneys are the cheapest priced in Europe. The country is one of the top 3 suppliers in the thriving global black market in organ sales, according to a just-released report on organ trafficking.
According to the report, a record rise in human organ-farming has made Moldova one of the leading source countries although with just over 3 million inhabitants it is much smaller in size than the world's two other organ trafficking centers, Brazil (184 million people) and India (1.12 billion people). The prominent position of Moldova in the illegal organ trade is because "this place is a black hole, no one cares about the population and government officials can just do what they want," in the words of a lawyer who recently left Moldova and today lives near Copenhagen, Denmark.
Along with Brazil and India, Reuters has named Moldova is one of the top 3 source countries in the world for organs.
Worldwide, the buying and selling of organs is a huge business, and the export of human raw material is bringing hard currency to Moldova. Officially listed as Europe's poorest country, Moldova is now the West's center for the illegal organ trade. The country shares a common border with the European Union, but is officially outside EU jurisdiction and not subject to international scrutiny.

Moldova leads in illegal organ trafficking