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It should be legal to sell your own organs.

I have two kidneys and I only need one. Someone out there is about to have no kidneys and they only need one. But I probably won't give them mine because there's nothing in it for me. What's the good in that?
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itsok · 31-35, F
I think so too. And I don’t see why our organs aren’t able to be sold by our families after death if it’s possible
BlueVeins · 22-25
@itsok Ehhhh I dunno, I think that part makes sense. I mean for one thing, the medical staff has to pull 'em out of you immediately & store them if they want to have any chance of recovering them. For another, organs are kinda worthless to a dead person, we can't use them in Hell or anything, so it makes sense that the hospital should just be allowed to harvest them for someone who can regardless of what anyone else says.

And it kinda seems like a needless barrier in the way of potentially life-saving treatments, we wanna have as many liver chunks in that freezer as possible.
Viper · M
@itsok
sold by our families after death if it’s possible
eh... because some jerk would totally kill a family member for the money...

I mean, if it's to cover cost of their funeral of something, maybe to take care of their children (maybe), but there would need to be clear limits so people aren't killing their family members for the money....


And see young children are the hardest ones, someone would be having a child, just to kill them and sell the part as that's where the highest money is... so no for babies.


I agree with an adult selling a part of themselves, but I'm not sure about others.
itsok · 31-35, F
@Viper I don’t feel like working out all the details. But organs are worth money. And that money doesn’t go to family or bills.
I’m sure family members kill each other for money all the time, that wouldn’t be anything new
Viper · M
@itsok very true, but I don't want to encourage murder anymore than it already is...