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Poll: Selling Organs for a Profit
Poll: Should people be able to sell their own organs for a profit?
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Posted almost 4 years ago Women sell their eggs, why not sell a kidney? Should individuals legally be able to sell their unneeded organs for a profit? |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I think it is unethical for anyone to sell organs for profit. Even women selling their eggs. The next logical step from selling organs is the people who have no ethics at all murdering someone to sell organs. It is Urban Legends coming true. Nursing demands extremely high ethics red44pc@yahoo.com |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I guess I would have to say I'm on the fence on this one.....if someone really needed money and they had a viable organ to sell, it should be their business. I would never do it, but I don't think I would think someone wer evil for doing it.
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| Posted almost 4 years ago It should be legal to sell any organ you wish. In addition a family donating organs of a family member should be compensated. When a kidney or any other organ is donated, EVERYONE except the recipient and the donor make money off of the donation.... the surgeon makes money from the surgery, I get paid for the anesthesia, the transplant organization gets paid for processing and transportation...
The American red cross makes money off of the blood and its components that are donated. The hospital makes money off of the prosessing, crossmatching and adminitration of it. When tissues such as skin or bone is donated, it is a company that makes money off of the processing and selling of the cadaveric bone or skin.
In light of this, why should not the donor or next of kin be paid? |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago Read the book "The Fifth Vial" by Michael Palmer, M.D. Although the book is fiction, it is very thought provoking. |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I just watched that movie Blood Work with Clint Eastwood, and I think selling organs for a profit could possibly lead to other terrible outcomes just like in that movie! -Angela--'--,--{@ |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago This is already occurring, no longer a hypothetical "what if, should we, is it right/wrong" type of discussion. Organ harvesting is done in Chinese prisons. A small group of women in India "rent" their wombs. Illegal black market organs are available with the right connections. The point is that humans are given free will: they are free to make stupid choices, bad decisions and take destructive options. They must live with the consequences, no one is given free absolution (related topic: natural laws have no sense of pity or justice). Financially powerful people will always find ways to manipulate the needy, the hopeless, and the uneducated to serve their purposes by economic coercion. What is the alternative? Totalitarian government that dictates your every move and crushes free will and the human spirit. Think of the socialism of "government knows best" run to the worst extreme ("1984"). We are already getting a taste of this after 9/11. What is to be done? Exercise your rights to make informed, intelligent decisions in regards to your own body and your own life. Weigh the options carefully and make no quick decisions (the alterations are permanent). Allow no one, whether individual or collective, to infringe upon your rights of self-determination, this is one of the core beliefs of nursing!!! We MUST stop government from trying to meddle in our lives!!! Once you give up your rights, they are a LOT harder to get back!!! "A bureaucratic committee is the only form of life on planet Earth that has six or more legs and NO BRAIN." --Robert Heinlein |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I have done the anesthesia for kidney and liver transplants...... We do a LOT of unrelated living donor kidney transplants... I would be willing to bet in at least some of these ,,, money has changed hands under the table..... and to be honest I see not a THING wrong with that.... " Slippery slope" arguments aside.
You can live perfectly well with one kidney...... I am thinking I might be able to part with one of mine for say....... 1 million unmarked nonsequesntial bills........ or gold bullion... either or.. I am open. |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD DONATE THEIR ORGANS AFTER DEATH NOT WHEN THEY ARE ALIVE. leena alkhatib |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I think live donations are a great thing, but put the profit in it and donations will drop to nothing by people turned off by the profiteers. There are whole villages in India where the people have only 1 kidney. We don't need that in the US. Here's a great article on that issue: http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2009/08/should-we-create-a-market-for...
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| Posted almost 4 years ago It is all about personal freedom.... it is YOUR body and I think you should have the right to do with it whatever you desire. |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago I guess selling parts of your body- your organ that is, is major decision one person can do. You are born complete, like God won't give you two kidneys for no reason. But, then i know of some people who resort to that decision mainly not because for themselves but for their family's needs. There's this one man, who sold his one eye so he could pay his mom's hospital bill. They are too poor, that this man has no other recourse but to do so. And really this is so sad.... "happiness depends upon ourselves" |
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| Posted almost 4 years ago leng says ...
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| Posted almost 4 years ago Am i restricting, do i have the right?! No, i dont and im not restricting them either. What im saying is, some people resort to that for some reasons, POVERTY is one of them, and we all know that's a fact. So, the person who sells his organ might not even wants it called a "choice" but rather, out of desparation because of life's hardships. Im talking of POVERTY here...and yes it is a case to case basis.
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