Yeah, show me the final combined bill, then talk to me about selflessness.

I believe legalizing selling organs would become a bit of an ethically complicated mine field.

I did hear on a podcast a while back that one of the biggest markets for missing and exploited children in the middle east is the very rich sheikhs will pay people for these black market kids if they are a match to harvest their organs so their own sick children can get a transplant.

Disturbing to say the least.

Sounds like rich muslim scumbags doing rich muslim scumbag shit. Has little bearing the way things work here.

I just don't see any reason why the only person who doesn't reap a windfall here is the person giving up a vital organ. That's nuts.

They pay people for plasma donations.:shrug:


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Where is the money going to come from?

Same place the rest of it comes from.

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Knowing what I know now, with zero functioning kidneys and needing one so I don't hook up to a machine for 10 hours every night; tethered to within 12 feet of wherever I place my dialysis machine; losing any semblance of a social life, because in order to be at work at a reasonable hour, I have to hook up at 7:30 every night; visiting doctors every other week; the monthly blood work and quarterly urinalysis; the anxiety every time you get a cold, because those are some of the same symptoms of peritonitis, which could kill me; the periodic hospital visit just because shit's not working right, and multitude of other complications that come from losing kidney function; the hassle with any kind of overnight travel, including shipping or lugging 18L of dialysate solution for every night I'm gone, manual bags in case the machine breaks... I could go on.

I would if I could, BCT. I would if I could.

The donor doesn't pay a dollar.

They pay women to carry a child to term then hand it off.

(in my best Red voice) Dumbass!

If your wife needed a transplant and you were a match, would you donate?

I think that's not even relevant to the point he is making. Pretty sure everyone would.

Would you walk in to a hospital and just randomly donate a kidney to nobody in particular? Without compensation? Does it make you an asshole if you wouldn't? Does it make the Doctor an asshole since he didn't donate his time and expertise to do the procedure? Are the hospitals assholes for charging for tests and blood work and bed time, etc?

There is actually more to it than that as well.

A lot of the time when people are seeking a living donor, usually within the family but not always, they offer to recoup any income lost due to the procedure as the donor is going to miss many weeks of work as well.