Comments on: WHY CAN’T I SELL MY KIDNEY?

By: matt

matt — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:42:40 +0000

So the law says we can’t sell our kidney to make for a win-win and save someones life and help someone out finanacially (especially now that gov’t and banks made a mess) but Big Tobacco can put millions into the pockets of politicians to keep cigatettes legal so they can make billions while millions die from smoking which roles over to rising health care costs which roles over to tax payers. That sounds fair. Gov’t will legalize it when they can profit from it themselves.

By: AJ Simkatu

AJ Simkatu — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:55:01 +0000

Yeah! Why shouldn’t I be able to donate my eyes, and liver, and heart as well for the money? If I want the $100,000 in exchange for my heart, why is that cruel Al Gore stepping in the way to prevent the free market economy working in the best interests of everyone, as it always does?

I’m sure lots of destitute fathers would love to send their children to college, or provide health insurance to their family. Why not let the poor guy sell ALL of his organs to the wealthy folks, so that he can provide for his kids?

TWAJS

By: MIKE

MIKE — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:43:29 +0000

I THINK IT SHOULD BE OK TO SELL IF YOU PLS. BUT WOULDNT SOME BAD PEOPLE KILL ONE ANOTHER TO SELL THERE ORGANS I MEAN IF YOU PERMIT THE SALE OF KIDNEYS YOU MAY AS WELL PERMIT ANY ORGAN TO BE SOLD.

By: Carla

Carla — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:22:12 +0000

If it’s legal to abort a living child then I can sell my damn kidney! 36life@live.com

By: richard

richard — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:04:56 +0000

i agree! we should be able to sell our kidneys if we so choose! in nevada you can sell your body as a prositute if you want and its legal, why not your kidney? if your willing to live with out one of them and by giving one up you’d be giving another person a chance to live a full life than it should be acceptable.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:02:42 +0000

Although it is a little crazy to think about, Yes I think that we should be allowed to sell our kidneys. If I was in need, and I thank God I am healthy, I would not mind paying for a kidney. If it is a matter of my living longer than yes I would pay for a kidney. The days of people giving from the heart with no strings attached are gone. We may not like that but the reality is they are gone. Period gone.

Life has changed and we must be realistic. Yes I would pay for the kidneys and it should just be legal.

The real reason why the government does not want the sale is that more people would be alive, there would be no more waiting list for kidneys and all these organizations and health care systems that make money from these kidney list would not be needed and therefore no money being spent for these agencies. Think about it, do you really believe there is no cure for cancer?

Let is sell the organs if that is what we choose to do.

By: Shannon R.

Shannon R. — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:59:10 +0000

I am a healthy, 36 year old who has come to the point in his life where I would like to give something of myself to someone in need of what I have, a kidney.
I’ve never been a ‘good’ person, and I am rather ashamed of my past. So, my way of recompence, would be to give to a stranger a chance to live.
Why then could I not sell it?
And I do not mean to the “highest bidder”, but from a, let’s say, a living donors fund?

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:27:02 +0000

I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t “like” to be tied to a hemodialysis machine 3 hours every other day to prove a point no more than you’d like county detox. Hypoglycemia is a side effect of alcohol and takes a few minutes to cure, so when your blood sugar is normal—off to the ‘tox!

Oh, you’re a high-powered hospital finance guy? Yawn. The paramedics are here to take you to the drunk tank, sir.

By: Catron

Catron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:51:34 +0000

“If you get Type II diabetes in a couple of years and it’s poorly controlled … who is left to deal with the consequences?”

I rather like the idea of being a burden on the system (I’ve paid so much into the tax coffers, I’d like to drain them for a while).

Also, I kinda like the idea of staggering into your ER about 15 minutes before you’re due to get off and keeling over in the triage room (because I’ve aggravated my diabetes by guzzling a fifth of Jack Daniels). That would break up the monotony of quotidian existence a little.

Seriously, though, I do see where you’re coming from on the coersion issue. It’s not that hard to imagine the lower socio-economic strata becoming organ farms for the higher strata.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:12:46 +0000

Now, I actually disagree with you on this. The process of kidney donation, and transplantation to a relative in need requires psychiatric monitoring to be sure that the donating person isn’t being threatened or coerced into doing it. Apparently, it can go both ways…the donator may coerce the sick person into doing something for him for the kidney, such as willing him his house and belongings if he dies. The sick person may threaten to never speak to the donator again if he doesn’t donate…Any of these situations does not add up to true consent.

Similarly, in medical ethics, there is a concept whereby people will make decisions that are not good or very risky if the reward is very high. If you are poor or even middle class, for instance, the $40,000 reward is considered to be a form of coercion. There could be a small, inconsequential reward and still not violate this ethical problem, but cash rewards equal to the yearly take-home salary of many middle-class people is a different story.

Also, if you get Type II diabetes in a couple of years and it’s poorly controlled, you will need that extra kidney and may end up in renal failure yourself where you wouldn’t have had you not sold your kidney. All those people with “chronic renal insufficiency” could need dialysis if they only had one kidney. For one person that may not be a big deal, but if everyone in the country starts flying overseas to donate kidneys to arab princes ‘n stuff, guess who is left to deal with the consequences? Yep. You and me and our pocketbooks.