Thread: Making organ donating organ SELLING?

"The rich got rich. The poor got even-- poorer"
-Catch 22's "Permanent Revolution"

That quote is modified off of some other quote which I feel like a bad scholar for not remembering who said that initially, but anyway, that really doesn't matter that much.

Anyway, there are a bunch of theories on this. Yes, probably only poor communities, and the stray hippy, would probably actually donate organs under these conditions, but this could not necessarily be viewed as so much of a necessity of the poor, but rather the deus ex machina for the poor.

Organs, on the black market, go for exorbitant amounts of money. This is given based off of the various risks that one goes through to procure such an organ. Even given that legal stresses were eased and legal selling of organs was allowed, the price for saving a life would be quite high.

The rich and the opulent are often very concerned with the ability to use their wealth, and thus the truly wealthy would not be opposed to dropping TONS of money into prolonging their life of relative obscurity. On the other hand, this gives a poor inner city family an opportunity to start over and move up in the world and completely change their life stories.

Besides, you only need one kidney to survive, so they would still be able to live a perfectly normal life, granted maybe with a bit more of a consideration on personal health.

The big theory now is that supposedly pigs have surprisingly similar organs to humans, so many believe that raising genetically altered pigs to harvest for organs may be the most "ethical" option as to getting plentiful, cheap, third party organs. We'll see how that works out. I mean, we all know that Mad Catz products are crappy. What happens when we start buying the Mad Catz equivalent of kidneys?

Ou, well I was just here to see what some adults and scholars were talking about. Well, I really do think that supporting organ donation and not organ sale is very important. To think that when you die and you donate your organs and manage to save a life is a meaningful thing.
And those who donate organs before death, they are saving lives too but gotta agree, unless they really need the money, most won't donate organs or sell organs. So the amount of people saving lives while alive is low.

So, SUPPORT ORGAN DONATION! Not Organ Sale!

Well lets just say Organ sale does occur, yes we will have heaps of organs, but what about those people who obtain those organs in illegal ways? What's stopping people, from knocking out randoms on the street and just harvesting them of their organs? I've heard that it is happening now (please correct me if I am wrong), all it would do is increase the activity, plus as already stated above the poorer people would be able to sell there organs, but what happens when they need one? Will they be able to afford it? Doesn't everyone have the right to be able to live healthly regardless of their income?

So no, organ selling, in my opinion is not a good option

gwenbibe, I agree with you. Nowadays, we are getting short of law-enforcement officers that are actually there for peacekeeping and not for the bribes, so it's really going to be quite bad if the situation is not well controlled.

Originally Posted by longtailedmonkey

gwenbibe, I agree with you. Nowadays, we are getting short of law-enforcement officers that are actually there for peacekeeping and not for the bribes, so it's really going to be quite bad if the situation is not well controlled.

Don't believe everything you see on TV about cops.

It may happen, but it isn't nearly as common as our corrupt media has people believe.

Dude, selling organs are TOTALLY for the black market. They sell everything from guns, to organs, to babies!

No government would allow the sale of organs. It's just not right. Donating means that the person was WILLING to give up his organs. Selling organs would mean that they were just recoverd off of some dead guy or something illegal-ish like that.

I dunno, don't quote me; I don't really have an educated opinion on this subject.

Just throwing something in the mix here.

What if instead of having organ selling the government just made it legal for hospitals to harvest organs from healthy people who die from accidents etc.?