Should it be legal to sell your body organs?
Judy
2007/03/27 14:12:25
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In 1999, an auction for a "fully-functioning" kidney showed up on eBay
starting at $25,000. The final bid was $5,750,100 before the auction
was cancelled by eBay.
The National Organ Transplant Act, 42
U.S.C. § 274e (2002) (NOTA), enacted in 1984, makes it a federal crime
to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ
for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the
transfer affects interstate commerce." Violations of NOTA carry a
$50,000 maximum fine, a maximum five-year imprisonment term, or both.
Every year, thousands of people die while waiting for an
available
kidney or other human organs. An ongoing debate is whether it should it
be legal to sell your own body parts, either before or after your death
by your surviving family members?
As of 03/26/07*:
Waiting list of candidates: 95,612
Transplants Jan-Dec, 2006: 28,925
Donors Jan-Dec, 2006: 14,749
*data retrieved from United Network of Organ Sharing
http://www.unos.org/
starting at $25,000. The final bid was $5,750,100 before the auction
was cancelled by eBay.
The National Organ Transplant Act, 42
U.S.C. § 274e (2002) (NOTA), enacted in 1984, makes it a federal crime
to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ
for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the
transfer affects interstate commerce." Violations of NOTA carry a
$50,000 maximum fine, a maximum five-year imprisonment term, or both.
Every year, thousands of people die while waiting for an
available
kidney or other human organs. An ongoing debate is whether it should it
be legal to sell your own body parts, either before or after your death
by your surviving family members?
As of 03/26/07*:
Waiting list of candidates: 95,612
Transplants Jan-Dec, 2006: 28,925
Donors Jan-Dec, 2006: 14,749
*data retrieved from United Network of Organ Sharing
http://www.unos.org/
Would we have rich cannibal's bidding over a good liver to eat when someone else needs it to live? haha ridiculous.
I think it would be wrong for your family to sell your organs though. #1 - they'd kill you for your organs #2 Body parts of the dead should be left to the hospital to determine who needs it the most - but body parts of the living should be fair game if you want to suffer the removal process.
That's what they do in black market...that's why there are crazy people out there cutting people up for their kidney's and sell it for $$...
In your description, you stated that "In 1999, an auction for a "fully-functioning" kidney showed up on eBay starting at $25,000. The final bid was $5,750,100 before the auction was canceled by eBay." Key Word=BEFORE. Imagine what it would have sold for if they were allowed to leave it on there?! Who can afford that? As much as I love my loved ones, I could NEVER afford to purchase an organ for them at that price and neither could 98% of the population. If they were to allow people to sell their organs, only the extremely rich would be able to afford to get the organs to keep their loved ones alive?! That doesn't make any sense to me at all!!! And if I were losing a loved one because someone had more financial resources than me, that would be very painful, not to mention the anger that you would feel!
Opening the door to selling organs on your own through E-bay is completely the wrong answer and would only open the door t...
In your description, you stated that "In 1999, an auction for a "fully-functioning" kidney showed up on eBay starting at $25,000. The final bid was $5,750,100 before the auction was canceled by eBay." Key Word=BEFORE. Imagine what it would have sold for if they were allowed to leave it on there?! Who can afford that? As much as I love my loved ones, I could NEVER afford to purchase an organ for them at that price and neither could 98% of the population. If they were to allow people to sell their organs, only the extremely rich would be able to afford to get the organs to keep their loved ones alive?! That doesn't make any sense to me at all!!! And if I were losing a loved one because someone had more financial resources than me, that would be very painful, not to mention the anger that you would feel!
Opening the door to selling organs on your own through E-bay is completely the wrong answer and would only open the door to crime.
Again, I feel that people should do good deeds without monetary incentives. However, since this is not always the case, a possible scenario that might work would be if the hospital or government would offer a certain dollar amount given to your family upon the successful transplant of your organs as long as the organ donor (not the family) followed the proper procedure to become a donor before their death.
Increasing the awareness is the answer!