If so, how much? I’m just wonderin’, it’s not like I’m hungry or nothin’. 
For me, $10,000,00 and it’s yours, I don’t care what you do with it. Steak and kidney pie, anyone?
No, I wouldn’t feel right selling it knowing someone might actually need it.
Now if someone wanted to eat say, a middle toe or something, I’d let that go for 25k or something.
GrahamWellington, is that you? :dubious: (Just kidding, folks… no accusations here)
But seriously, this sounds like your typical “what would you for 10 million dollars” question. And my answer is yes, for 10 million dollars, I would undergo everyday surgery (I mean, I think that’s what it is… somebody correct me if I’m wrong) for that much money.
Removing a kidney isn’t exactly a minor thing, DooWahDiddy. You come with two of the things for a reason, and it ain’t because symmetry is prettier.
Now, the appendix… I’d totally let someone eat my appendix for $10 million.
The liver grows back, so you could sell someone part of your liver and then they could eat it (with some fava beans and nice Chianti*, of course). The remainder of your liver should regenerate, and I don’t think there’d be any lasting ill effects (although major surgery always carries the risk of complications), and you’d be however much richer.
But it would be a damned creepifying way to make money, if you ask me.
*Or a big Amarone, if the buyer is a purist.
Its illegal to sell human organs. I don’t expect this thread to be around very long.
If they ate it for money, then they’d be a prostitute.
Because a prostitute is someone who loves you, no matter who you are or what you look like…
Just harmless speculation, no one is advocating the practice. Sheesh!
To the OP. Sure. But on several conditions, in addition to the price of at least $5M:
-you pay for the operation and all subsequent medical costs stemming from the operation (rehab, follow-ups, etc.)
-if I die during the operation, you do not get my kidney
-once the kidney has been prepared to your specifications and is ready for consumption… I get a bite
Somebody’s watching South Park, yes?
Having undergone surgery on 3 different occasions for removal of a variety of organs and bad things, I’ve gotta say: Nope, no way, don’t even need to think about it. Maybe it’s because I’ve got some savings in the bank but I don’t see a big pot of money being worth what I’d have to do to get it. Plus the very idea is somewhat disgusting to me.
Can we have your liver?
Iwill sell it if that someone needs it. As in, if he is suffering from kidney failure. But eat it? What’s a waste!
Sure, as long as it’s not my kidney!
I’m sorry, I’d just like to ask for a clarification on that currency value, because it doesn’t quite match any monetary formattion convention I’m aware of. Did you mean:
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ten thousand dollars, $10,000.00 (and you accidentally put in a comma instead of the decimal point, something like that,)
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one million dollars, $1,000,000 (and you put the commas in the wrong places,)
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ten million dollars, $10,000,000 (and you forgot the last zero.)
Not trying to judge, we all make typing mistakes, but it isn’t clear from the above what you meant. 
And my response… well, I’m not certain, because it’s hard to tell without someone seriously offering you the cash. But my gut reaction is “no damn way you’re cutting me open and taking something out, with or without anaesthetic… [because without anaesthetic hurts, and anaesthetic always carries a risk with it of not waking up properly,] unless it’s at the very least gonna save somebody’s life. Not so you can have a snack, I don’t care how much you’d pay me for it.”
I wonder how long until the mods close this thread, as selling body parts is illegal in the US, and this is a discussion of an illegal activity…
Ok, first off
:smack: Jeez, I previewed and everything. I meant choice #3, $10,000,000. Enough to set me up comfortably in a lifestyle that will not tax my poor lone kidney. And allow me some luxaries, personal trainer, nutiritionist, personal ball washer.
Now then,
Junior-modded, twice in one thread, both after a mod(albeit not from this forum)chimed in simply to respond to the OP. Seriously guys, we discuss illegal things on this board all the time, drug use and prostitution, vigilantism, hell the initiation includes rampant discussion of goat felching, and nothing coould be more illegal than that. When we move out of the hypothetical, and I try to set up an auction in this thread (heck I’ll promise not to even do a joke auction, so’s ya’ll won’t get offended)
If I have to say anymore, I’ll take it to the pit. Thank you for your time.
No, I wouldn’t sell it for culinary use; although I can survive with only one kidney, I wwould have lost a redundant system, leaving me more vulnerable to some kind of problem in the future. I’d be prepared to take this risk to save a life, but not to satisfy someone’s pseudo-cannibalistic curiosity, nor for money either.
[Jewish Rastafarian]But… I’m using it![/JR]
No way!!! I would donate a kidney to someone who is in kidney failure, if there were a reasonable assumption that it would be a viable match.
But to eat? Nope. There are already too many people dying to waste one of my organs for a meal for Hannibal Lecter.
And the understatement of the week award goes to…
For 10M, I might eat my own kidney. :dubious: