# Body parts/commodities are already being sold **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 23, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920 "2000-04-23T03:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bad-Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Bad-Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad-Mojo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920/21 "2000-04-23T16:24:00Z")
Personally, I think Lindsay has a very valid point. She’s hit on the two reasons I refuse to be a donor. #1, my organs might help an a-hole. #2, if anyone is going to make a big dollar profit from my organs, it’s going to be _me_. F those guys! Yeah, like I’m going to _give_ you my organs so you can make a whopping profit selling them to someone else. Sure, I’ll _sell_ 'em to ya! I’d be a great one to gamble on too! Shoot, the way I ride my motorcycle at 150mph+ the odds are in the recipient’s favor! * * * [http://www.killersurf.com/mojo](http://www.killersurf.com/mojo) ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920/22 "2000-04-24T05:13:00Z")
As an ER/ICU nurse I have a pretty different opinion of organ donation than Lindsay, well that’s fine but I want to know were all this talk about huge profits is coming from. The prossess is very expensive, which I can outline if you want. If you have a source for your claims that someone is making a huge PROFIT I’d like to see it ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920/23 "2000-04-24T05:37:00Z")
Here’s a summary of the thread so far. **Lindsey** posts what is obviously a GD topic, proposing a discussion of the sale of body parts. Jophiel says: > [@](#): > > Not to do Manhattan/Nickerz’s job but… what’s your question? Sounds more like a GD to me. Breckinshire says: > [@](#): > > At the risk of getting kicked to GD… Jois says: > [@](#): > > I don’t know how of if I ever could shake off the anger I’d feel with Lindsay’s experience. WHAT experience?! She donated blood in the OP. That experience? Lindsey says: > [@](#): > > Kicked to GD? What is GD? Anti Pro asks: > [@](#): > > What was the question? and points out: > [@](#): > > GQ is 'General questions > GD is ‘Great Debates’ where your outlook would be discussed, and of course, debated. Lindsey says: > [@](#): > > You are so right about my being angry. Those sleepy blue eyes were the most loving communicative eyes I’ve ever seen. His family believed in keeping the body whole. > As the wife I thought I had the right to say what would and would not be done with his body. What does this mean? It is completely irrelevant to this thread. We begin to suspect that it refers to a private conversation between Jois and Lindsey. ## Won’t some kind moderator take pity on this thread and move it to GD? “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920/24 "2000-04-24T05:45:00Z")
I beg your pardon–I stand corrected. She did not donate blood in the OP, she only made out her will. Sorry for the confusion. * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920/25 "2000-04-23T18:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Won’t some kind moderator take pity on this thread and move it to GD? It’s going to Great Debates now. I apologize that I cannot be on-line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for your convenience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-commodities-are-already-being-sold/10920.md?page=1)