Posted on 04/16/2021 10:16:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob
Might be an interesting way to raise some quick money?
As is mentioned, OTHER parts of the world you can buy/sell organs. just not here. The wealthy will ALWAYS be able to get what they want (in this world).
Fine by me. In fact, let him sell both and problem solved.
It seems to me, in my simple Redneck mind, that there is already precedent for this- I have heard that it is common procedure for folks to transfer their blood to the blood bank for recompense. I have never done this, and I am not sure if this is (still?) correct.
I see no reason why a person shouldn’t be able to sell his body or any parts of it, as long as there are no guarantees and no restrictions on him...and it’s mutually agreed...and he gets the money now...and they get the body after he dies.
Selling a kidney now, before he dies, is a bit more problematic.
You get paid for plasma. Blood is donated so the Red Cross top executives can make millions.
yeah, doesn’t the RedCross sell the blood they get for free??
Yes, they do.
For some reason, I do think that hair can be sold, but curiously - not blood or plasma.
No one is ‘entitled’ to a liver. But as I said, almost a quarter of all liver recipients need a new liver because they’re suffering from alcohol-induced cirrhosis.
If Crosby navigated the same approval process that those other recipients navigated - which I believe includes a lengthy period of verified sobriety - is impossible for me to say.
A lot of bad things still happen in ‘other parts of the world’ like chattel slavery for instance. Black-market organ trafficking is a thing in Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries and throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa.
But as I said, in the western developed world - not just the US - they’ve adopted a necessity-based transplant system based opposed to a means-based transplant system. Of course, even in the US, there is a reimbursement mechanism available to living organ donors. I’m not sure exactly what the details of that program are or what kind of amounts are available. But outright ‘organ selling’ is not permissible in North America and the EU countries, I believe.
“If one can volunteer to donate a kidney, is not the kidney undoubtedly his. God given personal property?”
Your house belongs to you, but you belong to God. A human being, or parts of them, cannot be bought or sold.
Yep. $3 Million.
My Grandpa was a huge drinker. Never mean, never drunk or passed out. He just drank beer all day, every day. When he was dying in the hospital, you could hardly recognize him; he was YELLOW and his stomach was so distended he looked like he was about to give birth.
Not a fun way to go and the REASON I limit myself to my Friday Night Martini. ;)
that is wrong! give us more than a cookie and some juice.
“My body, my rights”
NOW won’t stand with him
Only the wealthy do receive donations. If I needed a kidney, there is no way in Hades I could afford the doctor, facility, or pharmaceutical needs.
My cousin got a liver, still smoked and drank and still does 22 years later. His was paid for by government because he served in Vietnam and it was assumed he got it from agent Orange.
It doesn’t seem like they check at all, as he was smoking as soon as he could walk after surgery in hospital. Of course he smokes Merit ultra lights, and drinks Lite Miller Beer. So he has improved from Camels and “hard pops”.
Medicare, Medicaid paying for more heart transplants than ever before
To say that 'only the wealthy' receive transplants is absurd.
He won’t make a habit of it. Limited inventory.
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