Poll: Teen Sells His Kidney for an iPad 2.

[Quantom Quak]

iPad: Lasts for 3 years.
Kidney: Lasts for most of your life.

 

[Drtfgf5]

Simply NO, because if one of my kidneys fail, ill have to go on dialysis.

 

[Aur0ra145]

STOP THE PRESS! There are kidney brokers in China?!

 

[Agayek]

Uh...no.

The human body really doesn't have too many 'spare parts'. It's all in there for a reason. (If anyone brings up the appendix, I will pop you right in the kisser.)

I think the kid's parent(s?) should have taught him about a little something called 'long-term consequences'.

Or in this case, short term. His health deteriorated pretty rapidly from what I can tell.

Ding-Dang
In other news, Steve Jobs is showing up back to work at Apple.

There's a number of redundant or unnecessary organs in the human body. They are all vestiges left over from evolution that no longer really serve a purpose. The appendix is the most well known, and the most commonly removed is the tonsils, but there are a handful of others as well.

The problem is, those redundant/vestigial organs aren't worth anything because no one wants them. If they fail, they cut em out, and never put anything back in.

 

[Agayek]

Wait. Really? If true, I'll keep that in mind in the future.

Organ prices are really stupid high. The end seller would make something like $40,000 off the transaction. He should have got at least $15,000 for his kidney (assuming it's healthy).

 

[darkdraconus]

I'd sell it for at least $100 000.

 

[Womplord]

Oh well... Darwin Awards? Yeah, selling a kidney is a goddam retarded thing to do. They are NOT expendable, clearly shown by the kid's deteriorating health. I'm sure there are many life lasting health effects that effect everyone missing a kidney.

 

[Terminal Blue]

Not for money.

I'd freely transplant it so that someone I cared about could live. But there are serious potential health risks to living with one kidney, and I'm hoping to live long enough to see the singularity (or at least whether the singularity happens, I'd be pretty bummed if it doesn't now).

 

[Jadak]

Would you ever consider selling your kidney if you were guarenteed that it would not affect your health? Why your why not?

Isn't the entire point of having a conversation like this the fact that such a guarantee doesn't exist? If anyone could be guaranteed that it would have no affect on their health, what reason is there not to do it?

 

[Spencer Petersen]

Isn't organ trafficking illegal?

 

[Deh Zebra]

My organs are needed, thank you very much!

 

[WolfThomas]

Like that kid. He gave away his kidney...and apparently he needed both of them, because he isn't doing so hot at the moment. Unless the kidney broker's (hopefully) doctor didn't have stellar surgical skills and that's the cause.

It was likely the poor conditions the surgery was conducted in, plus the lack of appropriate aftercare. Lots of people live normally with just one after donating it, plus some people are actually born with only one (though it's rare) with no problems.