My organs. My choice.

[fredtoast]

Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine. I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to. And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

[*bfine32*]

(05-17-2019, 04:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine.  I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to.  And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

because one of you is too many. We don't need parts of you scattered about.

[Benton]

(05-17-2019, 04:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine.  I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to.  And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

Socialism.

The argument is only poor people would be willing to sell organs and therefore would likely be victims of unscrupulous rich folks. Reagan and his socialist cronies in the 80s pushed through the National Organ Transplant Act, which had a similar acronym to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). 

This was by design by the few capitalist vestiges left protecting our hard bought freedom.

Just as there are 12 original members of NATO (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States), there are 12 organ systems in the body (Integumentary, Muscular, Skeletal, Nervous, Circulatory, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Endocrine, Urinary, Reproductive, Digestive and Immune). 

The NATO/NOTA connection was a well laid warning by capitalists: Russia is coming to steal your organs, so prevent communism and give yourself over the freedom. In time, they hoped, well-rounded trillionaires would be able to spend enough money to buy Congree and repeal parts of NOTA that keep them from harvesting people.

[hollodero]

What organs of yours would you recommend?

[jmccracky]

(05-17-2019, 08:49 PM)hollodero Wrote: What organs of yours would you recommend?

Great .....I'll be in an accident with my ding dong being amputated, and I'll get Fred's weiner being donated to me. Thanks Fred! (Hopefully you're endowed)

[Beaker]

(05-17-2019, 04:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine.  I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to.  And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

Just don't donate your brain....it deserves to go with you when your time is up.

[CJD]

Because then hospitals will have fewer organs to harvest from you when you die.

I have a similar question: Why can I only apply to be an organ donor? Why not an organ seller? Why can't I put in my will "at my time of death, my wife may sell my organs for profit to the hospital that needs organs."

However, this will only further create an inequity between rich and poor people. Because where would the cost of the organ fall? Not the hospital. So then you're making all organ transplant lists turn into "Organ purchasing list."

So only rich people could ever afford to get an organ transplant (without going into financial ruin).

And then the new question becomes how much should each organ cost? If there's a demand (like a waiting list for organs), then couldn't you just begin an auctioning process where the person with the most money could skip the line entirely? And wouldn't that just exacerbate the above problem?

Another question: Why does a dead body have the right to refuse having their organs harvested? They're done with them. Why not say all dead bodies are free to be harvested? Why is this not a stance of "pro-life" people?

[*michaelsean*]

(05-17-2019, 04:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Why is it illegal for me to sell my organs?

They are mine.  I should be able to sell a kidney to the highest bidder if I want to.  And if they take some of my organs after I die my family should get some money for them.

I agree 100%.  They could do everything like they do now, just offer a set price for each organ.  No private sales.  Everyone else makes money in the transplant business.  Why is it taboo for the person who supplies the organ?  Just think of all the added donors if you knew your family could get $50,000 or whatever.