To think I should be able to sell body parts if desperate

DP quite likes the idea of donations for benefits, but points out that if you lost your job enough times you would become eligible for DLA.

Morality makes no concession for income, it is immoral for the poor to be in a position to sell and immoral for the rich to be in a position to buy, IMO.

Of course you would, if organ transplantation was open to the free market, there would clearly be differing prices depending on the quality of the organ.

Asda HeartPrice

Do you think you could get Tesco Finest Organs and Tesco Value Organs.

The fact is that if your idea was implemented, desperate people like you would end up damaging themselves permanently in order to fix a temporary financial problem. The idea that the poor could choose to have bits of themselves chopped out and sold to the rich is disgusting, it should never be legalised.

I can't understand where you're coming from tbh. Is this really the best way you can think of to alleviate the poverty students are faced with? Would you not prefer to lobby for better bursaries and investment in our young people instead of suggesting that maybe the disadvantaged could SELL PEICES OF THEMSELVES to afford to pay their bills? It seems a very extreme reaction to me.

Everyone, rich and poor, deserves to not have their own BODY counted as something they could sell to get themselves out of trouble, society should be doing a better job than that of looking after the disadvantaged.

YABtotallyU

Avocado raises a good point, OP would you be willing to prostitute yourself to raise money for your studies? If not what is the fundamental difference between "hiring out" part of your body for someone's use and selling a part permanently?

But you can sell your organs if you choose to do so.

A "friend" of mine bought his new kidney in South Africa.

tbh, things that are illegal everywhere except Iran are probably not such a great thing.

I think going on the game would be a more pragmatic approach to selling ones body.

Do you not think the fact that it's illegal everywhere is telling you something OP, i.e. that it's immoral?

I think that although you are an educated individual who fully understands the risks and benefits; many who would be tempted by the money may not fully understand the implications.

YABU for saying 'Discuss' like that. That is all.

sell to iran then?

no its a very bad idea. governments cant manage financial crisis, can you imagine how badly wrong it would get it should we be allowed to sell bits.

Maybe you should have to donate something before you can receive benefits?
The Tories would love that.

On a more serious note, I would vote for an opt-out system.

Of course yabu.

No one should have to sell bits of their bodies because their poverty is so bad.

The solution is to ensure that no-one ever needs to resort to that, not to accept that as some people are desperate so they can sell their kidney to richer people. We need a society where people just aren't that desperate.

Chinese make a nice living out of it - mobile death vans with a prerequiste for organs to order. Quite "popular" for private trade too

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13639934

A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report.

The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.

The story only came to light after the teenager's mother became suspicious.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165416/Chinas-hi-tech-death-van-criminals-executed-organs-sold-black-market.html

According to undercover investigations by human rights' groups, the police, judiciary and doctors are all involved in making millions from China's huge trade in human body parts.

Inside each 'death van' there is a dedicated team of doctors to 'harvest' the organs of the deceased. The injections leave the body intact and in pristine condition for such lucrative work.

After checking that the victim is dead, the medical team first remove the eyes. Then, wearing surgical gowns and masks, they remove the kidney, liver, pancreas and lungs.

Little goes to waste, though the heart cannot be used, having been poisoned by the drugs.

The organs are dispatched in ice boxes to hospitals in the sprawling cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which have developed another specialist trade: selling the harvested organs.

www.traffickingproject.org/2008/02/organ-trafficking-exposed-in-india.html

Trade in human organs is banned in India but many continue to sell their kidneys to clients, including Westerners, waiting for transplants.

No fucking way! IMHO
I speak as someone who's DH, BILs and DN have all required transplants.
This a life-altering act, as is donation which should be altruistic.
Donation may end up as the preserve of the desperate and transplants reserved for the rich.

Because it would quickly descend into horrible exploitation and poor people all over the UK would rapidly die out and...wait, Dave is that you?

Because only the rich would be able to have transplants??

Is this the Tory HQ person canvassing opinions again?

Fucking poor people, with their functioning livers and kindneys!

But why would anybody give e.g. A kidney etc through NHS when they could be paid? Imagine v quickly there would become some sort of insurance policies, when you die your family will receive a payout for your organs etc.

your body continues to make eggs blood and plasma but not a kidney or a liver

and while you can manage with only parts of either organ its not ideal

what would be a good is if they did away with organ donor cards and instead have an opt out system instead, where those who dont want to donate their organs can opt out making more organs available

because they don't "regenerate"? no lasting impact from giving blood or sperm (your body makes more) whereas a kidney...