General Which Organs Can I Live Without, and How Much Cash Can I Get for Them?

[The Helper]

First, a disclaimer: Selling your organs is illegal in the United States. It’s also very dangerous. Handing off an organ is risky enough when done in a top hospital, even more so if you’re doing it for cash in a back alley. No, really: Don’t do this. OK? OK.

There are many organs one can theoretically do without, or for which there’s a backup. Most folks can spare a kidney, a portion of their liver, a lung, some intestines, and an eyeball, and still live a long life. That said, donating a lung, a piece of liver or a section of intestines is a very complicated surgery, so it’s not done frequently on the black market. And no one’s going to make much cash on an eyeball. “In the U.S., there’s a fairly steady supply of donated corneas from corpses,” says Sean Fitzpatrick, director of public affairs at the New England Organ Bank. “There’s pretty much no market demand for eyes.” Giving up a kidney, though, is a relatively simple surgery that has netted desperate people a few bucks.

Now, black-market organ dealers don’t do a great job of filing taxes, but here are some prices based on rumored deals and reports from the World Heath Organization. In India, a kidney fetches around $20,000. In China, buyers will pay $40,000 or more. A good, healthy kidney from Israel goes for $160,000.

Read the whole thing here.

 

[FireCat]

In 1999, before eBay delisted a kidney put up for auction, bidders drove the price up to $5.75 million

Organs for auction.. That's pretty :nuts:

 

[Varine]

Organs for auction.. That's pretty :nuts:

I would sell one for 5 million. I'd throw two fingers from my left hand in too. Except the thumb... maybe half of it.

 

[ElderKingpin]

i thought you were talking about the musical instrument.

 

[Avaleirra]

i thought you were talking about the musical instrument.

lol.

 

[BlackRose]

and an eyeball

If I had my eyeball sold. I would only do O_

 

[Bogrim]

If someone like Robert Thomas Pattinson sold a kidney, you'd start seeing numbers off the chart.

"Mommy, I want a vampire kidney!"
"But sweetie, you already have two healthy-"
"I WANT A VAMPIRE KIDNEY!!!"

 

[AnthraxXx]

I would actually do a portion of the liver if I was REALLY desperate for cash and was like out on the streets or something... But hopefully that'll never happen.

I do enjoy my organs though :S

 

[FireCat]

I would sell one for 5 million. I'd throw two fingers from my left hand in too. Except the thumb... maybe half of it.

They would never give you 5 million for yours fingers and hmm half
thumb? Why a half thumb?

 

[Varine]

They would never give you 5 million for yours fingers and hmm half
thumb? Why a half thumb?

I've been told I have very nice hands.

 

[FireCat]

I've been told I have very nice hands.

And you only give away your fingers, Oh and a half thumb for 5 million ... Isn't that cruel?
Well, watch out from now on.. You might need to hide your hands now. hehehe

 

[Varine]

No, it's not cruel. I'm offering to give someone part of this nice hand to complete theirs. I just need to be paid for it.

 

[ElderKingpin]

just be an organ donor, when you are dead, who cares what scientists do to your body?

 

[BlackRose]

Religious people do?
Or Egyptian's and Mummies ?

 

[Wiseman_2]

just be an organ donor, when you are dead, who cares what scientists do to your body?

I care. And I'm not a religious person or an Egyptian
When I die, I want my body to be cryogenically frozen until they find a way to ressurect the recently deceased. Or at least turn them into Zombies, either's good

 

[Azlier]

When I die I want to stay dead. Waking up is never fun.

 

[ReVolver]

When I die I want to stay dead. Waking up is never fun.

It is fun when there's a zombie party and your invited!

 

[The Helper]

Bumping organ pricing guide from 2010 FTW!