Posted on 04/16/2021 10:16:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob
Might be an interesting way to raise some quick money?
What say ye?
Good luck competing with some Uyghur.
Kind of sad. I hope he’s not an addict or gambler.
I own me and reserve the absolute right to do what I want with my body. My family should have the right to sell my parts for transplant after I pass, and I have the right to sell parts while I am alive. My body, my choice, that holds a logical basis in a USSC decision above that of abortion, since the fetus is not the Mothers body and deserves protection from her intentional attempts to harm him or her.
In an organ transplant, the donor who actually is giving up the organ has to do so voluntarily, but in general, gets nothing out of it than good will. Yet, the surgeon removing it gets paid to do so. The hospital that provides the ER gets to assess a fee for use of the OR. The organ transportation team gets paid to ship the organ. The transplant facility and transplant surgeon, nurses, hospital staff, etc. all get paid.
In other words, every body who has a role in transplanting an organ gets paid for their role in the procedure except the donor who made it all possible.
Doesn't seem quite fair to me.
Economist Walter Williams addressed the issue with a question.
If one can volunteer to donate a kidney, is not the kidney undoubtedly his. God given personal property?
And as such do, not property rights pertain allowing him recompense to transfer his kidney to another person?
Walter Williams came down as expected on the issue.
How much you want to bet that if he does manage to sell it, he’ll buy lots of alcohol and destroy his remaining kidney, and wonder why he’s dying?
Lol !
Beat me by a second...slow mobile connection
;>)
Probably not the first time nor will it be the last time.
My body, My choice.........................
"How much you want to bet that if he does manage to earn a paycheck, he’ll buy lots of alcohol and destroy his remaining kidney, and wonder why he’s dying?"
Well, they ‘gave’ that drunken druggie David Crosby a new liver after he had wrecked his with Hep C and booze, and then he ‘fathered’ some children for that gay singer Melissa Etheridge and her ‘wife’ (she’s already divorced Wife #2) so what the heck!
Anything goes! *SMIRK* ;)
It’s the age-old question of inalienable individual rights versus the collective good.
Your kidney, your choice. OTOH, the transplant system that is in place in most of the developed world is a huge success story in large part due to the belief - supported by evidence - that people receive organs based on nothing but necessity rather than means.
It’s a system that is very much built on trust and nothing but trust with the compact being: Sign up for an organ donor so that there’s a supply of organs that may be needed by you or someone you love.
The minute we open the organ transplant industry to free trade, that trust dies...probably deservedly. Once people believe only the wealthy can obtain organs, they’ll stop donating organs then it all collapses.
Gives new meaning to the expression “I’d give my right kidney to get a girl like that...”
Donate? No one mentioned sell.
FWIW, I think almost a quarter of all liver transplants in the US are done because of cirrhosis. There may be an additional percentage of patients who have failing livers due to other complications from drugs, but I’m not certain.
Crosby was drinking again - as many alcoholic liver transplant recipients do - and seriously injured someone several years ago. It may have even been a death. I can’t remember the exact details, but the settlement was 7-figures.
I’m in favor of that as is Dr. Walter Williams. Imagine your family earning funeral expenses. Wouldn’t you live better if you knew your organs had value?
Why should we be forced to donate our property after our death?
My boss wasn’t entitled to a liver because he drank a fifth of the hard stuff daily. How David Crosby got one despite the same circumstances suggest an unfairness. Crosby could afford 10 of them if he wanted.
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