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Parts from a single body could fetch up to $150,000
The Times (UK) ^
| December 23, 2005
| Nigel Hawkes
Posted on 12/27/2005 2:55:40 AM PST by Wampus SC
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Are you worth more dead than alive?
Where's your recycling symbol tattoo?
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posted on
12/27/2005 2:55:45 AM PST
by
Wampus SC
To: martin_fierro
To: Wampus SC
Gives new meaning to your local "body shop" and "salvage yard".
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:00:12 AM PST
by
dc-zoo
To: 8mmMauser
Can we get a ping here?
Note Caplan sighting.
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:01:59 AM PST
by
Wampus SC
(Serf City here we come!)
To: Wampus SC
Michael Crighton was right. To the highest bidder here we have a kidney blood type O. What am I bid?
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:08:15 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: Wampus SC
I know this is a bit cynical... but the reason those prices are so high is that most people don't donate their body parts. The doctors make money on transplants. The hospitals make money on transplants. But the donor gets nothing.
I think it's time to change that law.
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:13:01 AM PST
by
gondramB
(Rightful liberty is unobstructed action within limits of the equal rights of others.)
To: gondramB
We need an ebay for body parts. eBody? kneeBay?
To: gondramB
Why charge to save a life? everyone should donate you can't use the parts when your dead one liver can save four people from death,look at hep c stats.
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:28:36 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
To: Wampus SC
They'd have to appraise me on the Antique Roadshow :(
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:29:44 AM PST
by
durasell
(!)
To: gondramB
Your right a person should beable to sell off his parts.
Just like another life insurance policy for his kin.
To: Vaduz
"Why charge to save a life? everyone should donate you can't use the parts when your dead one liver can save four people from death,look at hep c stats."
Why do we pay doctors? They SHOULD want to save lives without getting paid.... The reason is that market forces provide incentives beyond anything that guilt or government regulations can provide .
And paying $7000 for a heart valve isn't very of much of the total transplant cost which can be hundreds of thousands after the hospital and doctors are paid.
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posted on
12/27/2005 3:40:50 AM PST
by
gondramB
(If even once you pay danegeld then you never get rid of the dane.)
To: Vaduz
Why charge to save a life? good God. Learn econ 101. By charging, you save lots and lots and lots of lives by creating the supply. No chare, no supply. The only thing that needs to be worked out here is a standard form so that the heir of dead people get the $$$, not crooked doctors. Better yet, you should be allowed to sell the right to your body parts now, and pocket the dicounted cash while still alive.
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posted on
12/27/2005 4:38:02 AM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Wampus SC
I have read of the ethics of selling body parts, and personally I dont see anything unethical about it. If a Doctor doesnt mind charging 300,000 dollars to do the operation why shouldnt the donor get a couple of bucks.
Now having said that lets look at the practical side.
The cost of a funeral today runs in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 thousand dollars. Why shouldnt the donor at the very least be able to pay for his funeral off his donation?
Of course my plan is to live till there is nothing worth donating , but thats beside the point.
To: Wampus SC
Based on the principal of supply and demand. I would estimate Kerrys brain to be about $7,000 per ounce. Given it's so small and limited in supply. Of course there'd have to be a demand for it in the first place, perhaps the foreign market...France perhaps? They seem to enjoy smelly useless things.
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:01:44 AM PST
by
strange1
("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
To: sgtbono2002
Of course my plan is to live till there is nothing worth donating , I'm with you, actualy well on my way. This past week has claimed a massive toll on my liver. I've been smothering it in alcohol, one tumbler at a time. Cheers!
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:04:39 AM PST
by
strange1
("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
To: Wampus SC
I wouldn't mind my family getting a "cut" of the action...should I pass on...why should the "carvers" get all the bucks!
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:07:46 AM PST
by
mdmathis6
(Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
To: Wampus SC
Soylent Green!
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:23:57 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Wampus SC
In some cases people in charge of willed-body programmes have profited illegally.Yeah...
The LEGAL profits ought to good enough for them!
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:25:02 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: gondramB
I think it's time to change that law.What do you suggest?
Drill a hole above the casket and drop the money in?
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:26:06 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: gondramB
We have four people here in Atlantic County NJ that have been infected with HIV and Hept B, from illegal bone marrow transplants.
They stem from those funeral homes that did illegal bone and organ recovery (New York). I think they are hooked up with the same group that got Alistair Cooke's remains.
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:30:56 AM PST
by
mware
(everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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