Apparently it’s easy to find cash-for-organ donors:
Umer Maqbool calmly laid out his demands “” as he sold parts of his OWN body.The waiter revealed: “I’m ready to sell my kidney, a section of liver and maybe after three months do the cornea in my eye.
“I’m ready to do it today. I want £100,000 for all three.”
Umer, 24, spelled out the conditions at an East London hotel after advertising his organs illegally on the internet.
He is part of a growing macabre trade around the world where often debt-ridden people risk their own lives for a small fortune.
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£ 100.000 for a kidney, a quarter of a liver and one cornea? Expensive organs indeed, but that’s the free market for you – what is rare claims the higher price. Assholes, on the other hand, are much cheaper as the world’s supply of them seems infinite.
He must be kidding! It’s not so easy to remove a section of the liver…
And why should adults not be allowed to make the volitional decision to sell their own organs? Another misguided “social justice” bit of nonsense. God forbid that the person to whom the organs belong to actually make some money from it (besides the hospitals and transplant teams). I am sure that the “it’s my body and I will do what I want with it” (which by the way I agree with) crowd will have some reason for supporting this nonsensical statist intervention.
This is a bit of tabloid rubbish. The price of a cornea donation is blindness in that eye. Stupid is as stupid does. On the other hand I agree with Crim’s freewheeling libertarianism.
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