Lemur, don’t you get it? Its a strawman-greed argument.
It is greedy, you see, to want to make money off selling your organs. But it isn’t greedy to demand people donate them for free. When the poor (of which I am almost a member) demand things it can’t be greed, because they don’t have any money!
:rolleyes:
It’s greedy to pay top-dollar rent but not greedy to demand rent-control. I’m sure I could elaborate more
Basically, they’re greedy and we’re just trying to help humankind. Another cattle walks up the planks to serve the benefit of others.
I decided to not have my organs donated after I found that everyone in the little circle of organ donation can profit except for myself.
The doctor that performs the transplant gets a large wad of cash. The transplant organizations that match donors to organs and ship organs to their destination get paid. The recipient of said organ gets a new lease on life. The only thing the donor gets is a few dollars off his driver’s license registration (that’s what they do here in Georgia. I take the discount but don’t sign my card and my next of kin know my wishes - the government gets enough of my money).
I think the idea of organ transplant is great and would readily give anything of my dead body that was useful so long as government didn’t tell me how to do it.
It is rather improbable that allowing people to sell kidneys and liver parts(I’m only dealing with live removal here) will seriously reduce the number of free organs available for three reasons:
Not everybody dies in such a manner that their organs are usable.
As others have already pointed out, incidents where someone gives a kidney to anyone besides a family member are extremely rare.
Just because someone would want to donate their organs after death doesn’t mean they would be willing to undergo moderately invasive surgery for money.
Since those who could afford to pay(assuming insurance wouldn’t cover it) would sidestep the usual waiting list, people who couldn’t afford it wouldn’t have to wait as long for a “free” kidney.
I also find it somewhat illogocal that if a stranger needed a kidney, and I was the only tissue match in the area, and that person asked for one of mine, I would be perfectly within my rights to say “Tough titties, I’m not going through that unless it’s for someone I really care about; you’ll just have to keep using that dialysis thingy until they can get one from a dead person.”, but I could not say “Well, I guess you can have it, but it’ll cost you.”
