Comments on: Cash For Kidneys, Part 3 https://windypundit.com/2006/07/cash_for_kidneys_part_3/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: darryl https://windypundit.com/2006/07/cash_for_kidneys_part_3/#comment-376 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:07:37 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=444#comment-376 my email

djdeepsmc@aol.com

]]> By: darryl https://windypundit.com/2006/07/cash_for_kidneys_part_3/#comment-375 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:29:59 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=444#comment-375 I wish to sell my kidney, does any body know how to do this? ie; websites ect.

thank you
darryl

]]> By: Matt https://windypundit.com/2006/07/cash_for_kidneys_part_3/#comment-374 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:44:45 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=444#comment-374 No, the price of a kidney from a live donor is not $0. It’s actually many thousands of _negative_ dollars…at least assuming the donor is employed. Recovery from organ donation is a nontrivial process, with both financial and nonfinancial costs, for which the beneficiaries of the donation are forbidden to provide any compensation whatsoever, regardless of their ability to do so.

I might consider donating a kidney just out of altruism. But I don’t have enough vacation time logged to cover the missed work, and I’m pretty sure my health insurance wouldn’t cover the cost of recovery treatment. So basically, to ask me to donate a kidney is to ask me to voluntarily place myself in a state of destitution.

I’d do it for a close friend. But not for a stranger. Strangers can have my organs when I’m dead and no longer need the organs, treatment for the consequences of their removal, or a steady paycheck.

]]>