You have any such thing?
Gives new meaning to your local "body shop" and "salvage yard".
Can we get a ping here?
Note Caplan sighting.
Michael Crighton was right. To the highest bidder here we have a kidney blood type O. What am I bid?
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.
They'd have to appraise me on the Antique Roadshow :(
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.
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.
I wouldn't mind my family getting a "cut" of the action...should I pass on...why should the "carvers" get all the bucks!
Yeah...
The LEGAL profits ought to good enough for them!
later pingout.
Remove the legal restrictions on people selling their own body parts, and illegal stuff would stop, the prices would drop, and the shortages of organs for research and transplantation would disappear. Free markets are a GOOD thing.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Final call of the night. Medical miracles, or cannibalism? I chalk it up to the "I am my body and there is no eternal soul, so let me cling onto bodily existence as long as humanly possible and even past that. No expense spared. And to hell with any concept of ethics."
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This article is the best argument I've ever read for carrying concealed weapons. YOu just never know when you'll have to fight off some bodypirate trying to hack out your liver
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Can I sell some of my husband parts if he's still alive?