[gondramB]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We need an ebay for body parts. eBody? kneeBay?

[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.

[riverrunner]

Your right a person should beable to sell off his parts.
Just like another life insurance policy for his kin.

[Elsie]

I think it's time to change that law.

What do you suggest?

Drill a hole above the casket and drop the money in?

[mware]

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.

[DeweyCA]

Dr. Walter Williams has said this before; change the laws so that the donor can profit, and there will be many more donors.

[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."

Not gonna happen. The doctors, hospitals and dealers won't want to give up any of their bottom line to anyone.

[hedgetrimmer]

Human beings are not for sale, in the United States.

[Hildy]

I agree. If I want to sell a kidney, why shouldn't I be able to?

[Snoopers-868th]

The doctors make money on transplants. The hospitals make money on transplants. But the donor gets nothing.

Not a chance as far as I am concerned. Only the poor would be the donars and what would their lives be worth and who would decide the definition of death needs to be updated and how fast would that happen. The definition is already too big a question for me to ever give my organs--but then, someone could very well steal the ones that do not need life support to "harvest". Our laws have made it so when one dies they are wisked away out of view; by parties unknown even to the family, i.e., hospital staff, coroner, funeral director, etc. Do you trust them? I don't.