Selling your body?

[Adam]

What are your thoughts on it?

And I actually mean the bits of your body - not the service of sex or like.

There has been a couple of major news stories recently, one about having your funeral paid for by the NHS if you donate your organs which leads to questions like selling your kidney and stuff while still alive (which is illegal).

And now there is a story about increasing the amount for women donating their eggs from £250 to £750.

Both are highly valued services and most do all of the above not for the money but for the act of giving.

If you could sell easily sell your body parts, would you be more inclined to do so?

[like2_drink]

Can't be saved and not saving someone < Can't be saved and saving someone

I'll sell your kidney for you bro.

My question for this thread is how many times can your organs be recycled? If you got hit by a car and donated them, and then the receiver walks out and gets smashed! by a bus the day after leaving the hospital (he too being an organ donor), would they be able to reuse that shit? Or would it be like recycled plastic and paper.

[silence7]

I have the little pink dot on my driver's license. Which for you non U.S. folks, means take what you want after I'm gone. If they'll pay for the funeral too, all the better.

People sell Eggs, Sperm, etc... They rent their bodies out as surrogate Mothers.. Body parts however seems a little weird.

I give blood on a pretty regular basis, for free, but I know that it's then sold to hospitals etc, and I'm fine with that.

[Adam]

I suppose this is more relevant in the UK. You can't (legally) get paid for sperm or blood here. You can only get your funeral paid for by scoring a deal with universities et similar to donate your body to anatomy / medical science. The reason you get paid for donating eggs atm is because you are compensated for all the hormone drugs and day surgery you have to endure.

And good question like2_drink

[dave790]

The NHS thing is a really good idea. It encourages the donation of body parts which is benefiting others, and I don't think the majority of people realize how costly funerals are until they are faced with the prospect of paying for one. So it removes the added stress of the person's grief-stricken loved ones.

Unless they were to desire an open-casket, which personally I find a pretty bizarre concept in itself anyway.

[fonky pizza]

Nobody's buying brains lately....sure, having a brain connected to the heart is not trendy now days.

[HOTWIFE]

I am an organ donor on my license. I have a friend in need of a kidney transplant and was tested for a match. Her brother was a better match. As far as selling my organs on the black market, I think no.