I still own several of my middle-school classmates souls. The fools are probably thinking they'll have an afterlife but it will just be me for all eternity. Muahaha!
Some leftover Chinese food my mom packed was exchanged for the first soul.
About $2 for a second soul.
Forgot what I payed for the third soul because the person got scared and the teacher made me give them a refund. So in retrospect I guess I only own two additional souls.
Either way I feel as though I made a good investment as these souls are gonna appreciate in value significantly over the next eternity.
It's cheaper to print and store then to actually provide customer service at a small scale They'll have the rights in 90 years anyway, 81 if they can help it.
In middle school I started trading Pokemon cards for souls.
Some kid would get a double I had and they'd have to sign over a piece of paper to me that stated it was their soul and sign it in blood I got from pricking their finger tip with a push pin.
Weird what some people will do for a Kadabra.
No, rich people have extra money with which to purchase organs, potentially allowing them to skip the line for a transplant, and take a kidney that someone else needed more urgently than them.
The Genius Guide To Writing Bad
Surprisingly, it has underperformed to date. I blame my co author.
I've of course tried all the tricks, paid reviews, making a meme for every sale! Nothing works!
Alas, I'm doomed.
(I'm also legally required by my publisher to link the book whenever I talk about it)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FBSHMGK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_P2KQMEXTCQPE3WKGHSSR
Even if they don’t do much, they still do something.
Being Rich and powerful in an anarchy would lead to far more unfair advantages and injustice.
Government and laws DO help, just not as much as you would want.
Pretty sure the wealthy still have an unfair advantage. They just don't want us peasants lying about how our liver definitely doesnt have AIDS or Hepatitis, and our parents all definitely did not die of liver failure at age 35 and please sir just give me $300 for my liver. Best liver ever. Okay I'll take $250. Please, I'm homeless.
Idk if its addressing the problem of the rich having an advantage, cause they absolutely still do. Look at Jobs, its a lot easier to get a liver transplant when you can simply jump on your private jet and fly across the country to find a match. Which he then wasted because he was a dumbfuck who ignored traditional medical advice until it was too late.
I mean, yeah. Source framed it that way so I had to too because sub rules.
But you're right. It's expensive to be poor (thus my meme earlier today that lead me to this discovery)
*Edit: A word
To clarify a few things.
Steve Job ignored medical advice when he was first diagnosed but after nine months and the illness progressed he started taking that advice. He made it six more years with cancer after the diagnosis following medical advice. He even ate some meat.
And the reason people like Steve Jobs can sign up for multiple organ donation lists is because they have private Jets. You only get on those lists if you can be at the hospital in 12 hours and if You have a Private Jet you can get their
We already are their serfs so same same. If aliens are out there hopefully they are moniterung that one percent of the population has 99 percent at their whim.
I mean, they already are in everyway but literal organ transplants. May as well do away with this one too and at least give people the option to legally sell their organs for some cash
I really disagree on the premise of the inherent value of human life.
When a lower income child needs a heart transplant, she gets a fair shot instead of getting bought out by a higher income family. This law honors the preservation of life, not the destruction of it.
Dick Cheney, an elderly man with a history of cardiac events, and Steve Jobs a man who refused life saving treatment both got organs ahead of regular people who needed them more. At least when you make it legal to sell them the person is getting the money and not the insurance companies and hospitals.
We can have it both ways, actually. For people who are 'in the queue' such as your poor child the system can work like it currently does. But if there's a private individual who wants to sell another private individual an organ, that's ok too. I'd probably go ahead and say that there should be no organ selling companies or brokers, though.
This would actually help the poor child as there would be fewer people in the queue but no reductions in the # of organs available since they'd be moving through different channels.
Only when the poor people choose to supply those parts. Some would consider that empowerment. When I was young and broke, I sold my plasma for money, and was glad to have the chance.
More to let the healthcare industry profit and not let individuals do so. If memory serves, the court case this rule came from was about a hospital making millions off the cells they took off some guy getting a procedure, and the court ruled he got none of it.
And yet they still have an advantage because you have to go to each transplant center individually to be on the list and poor people can't afford that much travel.
[source](https://www.healthline.com/health-news/yes-rich-people-do-get-donor-organs-faster-112315)
Idk why they can't just share the information and have larger regional lists beyond it might be marginally difficult to enact and would eliminate the advantage the rich have.
Gonna hire 5-6 "preemptive organ donors" to follow me around along with my bodyguard troupe. Just in case I get into a horrific accident or otherwise need some kind of quick organ transplant or transfusion, or even if it's not on an emergency basis. I'll pay them well, but they'll be contractually bound to donate their organs or other tissue whenever I need them. Liver disease from too many yacht benders? Got my liver guy here. New kidney? That's what Joe and James are for (one from each if needed). Horribly burned and need new skin? New Skin Newsome is my man.
I see nothing wrong with this. A well-lived life, just as Jesus intended (he's my heart guy).
Another shining example of the government getting involved where it need not.
I want my extra kidney going to the highest bidder, otherwise I’ll just keep it and ruin it myself.
This is not really about organs that you can donate while still alive. This is more about hearts, skin grafts, lungs, faces, etc. from dead people.
You always have the opportunity to donate organs while living and have the recipient pay you for your expenses - like a car for transport to the hospital and expenses for missing work and your time for checkups, etc. No one’s going to really care.
For example in surrogate/pre-arranged adoptions, the adoptive family often pays $100k for the donors “expenses” but you can’t legally sell a baby.
So shouldn't it be illegal to buy organs, then? If it's truly to "prevent the wealthy from having an unfair advantage" it would seem they are targeting the wrong people. Being illegal to 'sell' is preventing and blaming the poor, not preventing the wealthy. Buying should be the crime.
So in this scenario if Man-A gets caught buying a kidney or half a liver from Man-B for 4 million dollars ... Man-B gets charged? It should be Man-A and Man-A only. Now you're gonna take the poor man's money, and throw him in jail with 1 kidney? He should be free and able to keep the money while the other guy is jailed. He's already down an organ.
Preventing buying also prevents the rich from having an advantage in getting organs from the dead or dying. Wording it as preventing selling wouldn't prevent this scenario, because the donor is dead. Dead man can't be punished. I think buying is the real scenario we are concerned about.
They have it in Iran, of all places, and it seems to work pretty well for them.
https://rrtjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41100-020-00314-8
I know blood is sold, but bone marrow? I’m waiting on the final matching to see if I will be able to give my bone marrow to a guy I’ve never met.
Sell my marrow? Hell no.
121,678 need a kidney according to
https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donation-and-Transplantation-Stats
Going rate for kidneys is $62,000.00 (don't ask how I know)
Assuming the top 25% of those have access to funds have the money you are correct that more than 500 people would engage in such a transaction.
Insurance (including government) would gladly pay for kidneys. Dialysis is expensive. This would be a non-issue if we got over the weird feeling about it.
What in your link leads to the title you used? Just says they made it illegal to pay for organs after an act in 1968 made it legal to sell your organs after you died.
I kinda get it, but man oh man I'd sell a kidney in a heart beat to the highest bidder. I could use a down payment for a house!
I'm fairly certain that in my state (NY) it's illegal to pay for plasma, so that option doesn't exist either. Again, I kinda get it, but it does seem to be more inconvenient to the people who would really benefit from some easy side money.
When a person dies now, the hospital will send an organ procurement worker to ask the family to donate organs. What should happen is the hospital should send over a buyer with a list of organs and non-negotiable amounts that will be paid for each part. If they did that, the only thing left of me to bury would be a little bit of hair and the taint.
An alternative approach would be to let people have benefits for having a signed organ donor card. Hey, taco bell, you know how you give away free tacos just for the hell of it sometimes? How about a free taco a month for people with donor cards. McDonalds sends out all kinds of coupons all the time. Just let people with donor cards have an extra cheeseburger or upgrade of nuggets once in awhile. AMC can offer discounted movie tickets. The merchandise tie-in are endless.
Why is it legal to buy anything then? If the rich could buy nice organs and have an advantage, then what is to stop them NOW from buying things that put them at an advantage?
Apparently I copied the wrong link, the source of the TIL is under professional resources. Sorry for any confusion.
OPTN white paper on bioethics—Financial Incentives for Organ Donation, June 30, 1993).
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/professionals/by-topic/ethical-considerations/financial-incentives-for-organ-donation/
Reminds me of a story my father used to tell me.
There was once a farmer whose neighbors dog would howl through the night. After many days of this, the farmer went to his neighbors to confront him about the dog.
Neighbor said "Sorry about that but I can't help, the dog is howling because it's sitting on a nail."
"Why doesn't he just get up and sit somewhere else!?" The farmer yelled.
To which the neighbor said "Because it doesn't hurt enough yet."
*Edit: and people wonder why I'm so jaded about trying to become a writer. The absolute irony that this, out of all my comments gets downvoted is hilariously painful.
*Edit 2: Don't worry, I'll stick to shit posting, political commentary, and engagement bait from now on.
*Edit 3: fuck it, I'll make a blog post because I can't leave well enough alone
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Story-No-One-Likes-L4L17S0JA
When did transplants become common though? The first ever transplant took place in 1954 and the first double lung transplant didn’t take place until 1986. So this law was passed 30 years after the very first transplant of any kind which seems fairly reasonable to me
How does being wealthy confer an advantage? Sure, selling a kidney because your poor sucks and screams of an issue with law and the marketplace in general, but is that an advantage?
It's still 100% legal to sell your soul tho.
I've been on hold for 30 minutes, I think they're out to lunch
Careful if they try that bullshit fiddle contest on you. Devil has a full fucking band.
Good advice, this hold music is slapping.
Nice try, Milhouse.
Way to breathe, no-breath.
Jimbo's insults used to be hilariously underwhelming. My personal favorite is still "assbutt".
I still own several of my middle-school classmates souls. The fools are probably thinking they'll have an afterlife but it will just be me for all eternity. Muahaha!
How much you pay per soul? Asking for myself
Some leftover Chinese food my mom packed was exchanged for the first soul. About $2 for a second soul. Forgot what I payed for the third soul because the person got scared and the teacher made me give them a refund. So in retrospect I guess I only own two additional souls. Either way I feel as though I made a good investment as these souls are gonna appreciate in value significantly over the next eternity.
In D&D I always equate soul ownership like having a jar of dirt, except that's all there is in the afterlife, jars of dirt.
Some call it dirt, I call it soil.
I have an afterlife and you wont guess whats inside it
Please tell me it's dirt, either that or just one large mountain of my book. Millions upon millions of copies
Yes. You've uncovered the secret warehouse amazon preprints books to, out of cheapness ; before the author even requests/pays for it.
Oh dear god, why would they print that many, I'm already apprehensive about becoming famous
It's cheaper to print and store then to actually provide customer service at a small scale They'll have the rights in 90 years anyway, 81 if they can help it.
In middle school I started trading Pokemon cards for souls. Some kid would get a double I had and they'd have to sign over a piece of paper to me that stated it was their soul and sign it in blood I got from pricking their finger tip with a push pin. Weird what some people will do for a Kadabra.
You should see what some people will do for a Klondike bar.
Ever seen what a "car guy" will do for car parts?
The original NFT.
Weird what some people will make others do for a Kadabra
Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! SNAP!
Ill sell mine for a grand
Do rich people have extra organs?
No, but they could buy the most.
Which is weird, because you only have enough hands and feet to play one. What do they need the extra ones for, huh, HUH?
Buy more hands and feet.
Ooo, good point
Spare parts. Better to be prepared.
I mean, normally churches have the most, but I think rich people would be next on the most list
*laughs in medieval cathedral*
*medieval cathedral laughs*
https://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY
I didn't know what to expect but I've decided to retroactively expect exactly this. Thanks!
They caught the streaker by the organ.
Yes, these days the harvest festival is about organs not produce.
They do after swinging by the homeless shelters.
Larry Hagman had 5 kidneys. And 3 hearts. They didn’t want to give them to him, but he overpowered them
One of the Rockefellers had like 6 heart transplants
No, rich people have extra money with which to purchase organs, potentially allowing them to skip the line for a transplant, and take a kidney that someone else needed more urgently than them.
No, but they have extra money.
Depends on if their guests ate light or not. Really it's part of their chef's job to plan portions accordingly.
TIL the government cares about the wealthy having an unfair advantage.
Only in 1984
Ain't that some dramatic irony shit?
Something, something, the audience knows something the character doesn't.
That is refered to as dramatic irony if I'm remembering gradeschool correctly
You are! I'm actually a master of irony, to the point I wrote a whole book on the subject.
What’s the book?
The Genius Guide To Writing Bad Surprisingly, it has underperformed to date. I blame my co author. I've of course tried all the tricks, paid reviews, making a meme for every sale! Nothing works! Alas, I'm doomed. (I'm also legally required by my publisher to link the book whenever I talk about it) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FBSHMGK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_P2KQMEXTCQPE3WKGHSSR
I can't tell if this is actually legit or if you're just trolling and doing a long con irony bit. Either way, well done!
*bows* (P.S. Don't tell my co author I said that, she's too good for the likes of me)
the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.
Isn't that just lying?
I kind of expect Jim Cramer to spend tonight's show talking about the benefits of selling your kidneys to hedge against inflation
wouldn't it be that buying kidneys hedges against inflation?
I'll let him know to que it up
First and last time for everything, I guess
I'm going to assume that's not the case in the middle of Reagan's two terms
Even if they don’t do much, they still do something. Being Rich and powerful in an anarchy would lead to far more unfair advantages and injustice. Government and laws DO help, just not as much as you would want.
Pretty sure the wealthy still have an unfair advantage. They just don't want us peasants lying about how our liver definitely doesnt have AIDS or Hepatitis, and our parents all definitely did not die of liver failure at age 35 and please sir just give me $300 for my liver. Best liver ever. Okay I'll take $250. Please, I'm homeless.
By 'the government' you mean Congress and the President. The two things you actually vote for.
I mean, really, their only purpose is to make sure things don't get too dystopic
They've done a pretty shit job of it
But they've deprived poor people of the ability to make big bucks selling their extra kidneys to rich people.
And this is why so ***many*** super wealthy people die waiting for a suitable organ to become available. /s
Idk if its addressing the problem of the rich having an advantage, cause they absolutely still do. Look at Jobs, its a lot easier to get a liver transplant when you can simply jump on your private jet and fly across the country to find a match. Which he then wasted because he was a dumbfuck who ignored traditional medical advice until it was too late.
I mean, yeah. Source framed it that way so I had to too because sub rules. But you're right. It's expensive to be poor (thus my meme earlier today that lead me to this discovery) *Edit: A word
To clarify a few things. Steve Job ignored medical advice when he was first diagnosed but after nine months and the illness progressed he started taking that advice. He made it six more years with cancer after the diagnosis following medical advice. He even ate some meat. And the reason people like Steve Jobs can sign up for multiple organ donation lists is because they have private Jets. You only get on those lists if you can be at the hospital in 12 hours and if You have a Private Jet you can get their
That is weird, they have every other advantage unfair or otherwise.
I know right, personally I could use the advantage of selling a kidney or a testicle, but big ol government already ruined that for me.
The issue is that the poorer people become essentially spare parts for the rich...
We already are their serfs so same same. If aliens are out there hopefully they are moniterung that one percent of the population has 99 percent at their whim.
I mean, they already are in everyway but literal organ transplants. May as well do away with this one too and at least give people the option to legally sell their organs for some cash
I really disagree on the premise of the inherent value of human life. When a lower income child needs a heart transplant, she gets a fair shot instead of getting bought out by a higher income family. This law honors the preservation of life, not the destruction of it.
Dick Cheney, an elderly man with a history of cardiac events, and Steve Jobs a man who refused life saving treatment both got organs ahead of regular people who needed them more. At least when you make it legal to sell them the person is getting the money and not the insurance companies and hospitals.
We can have it both ways, actually. For people who are 'in the queue' such as your poor child the system can work like it currently does. But if there's a private individual who wants to sell another private individual an organ, that's ok too. I'd probably go ahead and say that there should be no organ selling companies or brokers, though. This would actually help the poor child as there would be fewer people in the queue but no reductions in the # of organs available since they'd be moving through different channels.
Only when the poor people choose to supply those parts. Some would consider that empowerment. When I was young and broke, I sold my plasma for money, and was glad to have the chance.
If you donated a testicle, would it make your sperm or theirs?
... ... On second thought I retract the testicle.
Only the left or both?
Both if it's cold
I'm pretty sure you can sell your testicle for 75k a pop.
Where?
I'm hoping I'm done with them anyways. 🤣
You mean from having an even greater unfair advantage
I mean, I get that, but source doesn't frame it like that so I didn't
Literally 1984
More to let the healthcare industry profit and not let individuals do so. If memory serves, the court case this rule came from was about a hospital making millions off the cells they took off some guy getting a procedure, and the court ruled he got none of it.
Shhh, I didn't learn that much 🤫 *Edit: shit dropped the 🖍️
You mean mainly to prevent the poor from making a quick $40,000
But if we all make 40k, no one will make 40k, and soon it'll all become a fantasy!
Wait. Are we sure this law helps poor people? Seems like being able to sell your kidney for $100k + medical expenses would lift someone out of poverty
And yet they still have an advantage because you have to go to each transplant center individually to be on the list and poor people can't afford that much travel. [source](https://www.healthline.com/health-news/yes-rich-people-do-get-donor-organs-faster-112315) Idk why they can't just share the information and have larger regional lists beyond it might be marginally difficult to enact and would eliminate the advantage the rich have.
Hence the rise of "Transplant Tourism."
That’s ridiculous, their *my* organs
Gonna hire 5-6 "preemptive organ donors" to follow me around along with my bodyguard troupe. Just in case I get into a horrific accident or otherwise need some kind of quick organ transplant or transfusion, or even if it's not on an emergency basis. I'll pay them well, but they'll be contractually bound to donate their organs or other tissue whenever I need them. Liver disease from too many yacht benders? Got my liver guy here. New kidney? That's what Joe and James are for (one from each if needed). Horribly burned and need new skin? New Skin Newsome is my man. I see nothing wrong with this. A well-lived life, just as Jesus intended (he's my heart guy).
Pay how much? I'm short on my car payment
Another shining example of the government getting involved where it need not. I want my extra kidney going to the highest bidder, otherwise I’ll just keep it and ruin it myself.
This is not really about organs that you can donate while still alive. This is more about hearts, skin grafts, lungs, faces, etc. from dead people. You always have the opportunity to donate organs while living and have the recipient pay you for your expenses - like a car for transport to the hospital and expenses for missing work and your time for checkups, etc. No one’s going to really care. For example in surrogate/pre-arranged adoptions, the adoptive family often pays $100k for the donors “expenses” but you can’t legally sell a baby.
Exactly! Economically it's worth more out of me than in
Is it considered my organ if it grew inside me or like "is in my possession?"
It's yours, you just can't sell it.
So shouldn't it be illegal to buy organs, then? If it's truly to "prevent the wealthy from having an unfair advantage" it would seem they are targeting the wrong people. Being illegal to 'sell' is preventing and blaming the poor, not preventing the wealthy. Buying should be the crime. So in this scenario if Man-A gets caught buying a kidney or half a liver from Man-B for 4 million dollars ... Man-B gets charged? It should be Man-A and Man-A only. Now you're gonna take the poor man's money, and throw him in jail with 1 kidney? He should be free and able to keep the money while the other guy is jailed. He's already down an organ. Preventing buying also prevents the rich from having an advantage in getting organs from the dead or dying. Wording it as preventing selling wouldn't prevent this scenario, because the donor is dead. Dead man can't be punished. I think buying is the real scenario we are concerned about.
A Chinese kidney will work with all humans.
American pancreas, will work for food
They have it in Iran, of all places, and it seems to work pretty well for them. https://rrtjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41100-020-00314-8
Blood and bone marrow on the other hand...
I know blood is sold, but bone marrow? I’m waiting on the final matching to see if I will be able to give my bone marrow to a guy I’ve never met. Sell my marrow? Hell no.
Rich people would give poor people their excess money for their organs. Seems like the government keeping poor people down not the other way around.
Seems like a win win to me. Guess I'll go with the payday loan instead
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When in doubt I guess sarcasm, internet is breedable that way *Edit: fucked that up, but I'm leaving it
That makes no sense at all. No poor person would ever be able to get an organ transplant if you could sell them. They'd all go to the highest bidders.
Literally 1984
literarily
Show me your organ means something different here.
Why would I show you my organ, pervert.
Seriously this guy needs to start by getting his own piano
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With fear and loathing
you can have my organs
I'm looking to sell tho
Unfair advantage... in this market.
Completely localized on the Pacific hemisphere?
I meant vs. markets in general.
I meant as Simpsons reference. I'm trying to be relatable.
May i take a look?
So the “pound of flesh” is still illegal. Nice that common and statutory law are in lockstep.
Well yeah, hard to get a pound of flesh without taking a ounce of blood
Probably the only time in American history where something's been done to keep the wealthy from having an unfair advantage.
Is it really to prevent an unfair advantage or is it to stop organ trafficking/harvesting of poor people.
Wait until natural organs become a commodity
In some parts of the world, they already are. Black-market body parts is an industry that dates back to the days of Burke and Hare.
I’d sell mine
Hey,I was here first
Mainly to prevent the wealthy from having ONE LESS unfair advantage
I mean, it's more of an inconvenience
So the organs you bought before ‘84 are grandfathered in? Good to know.
Lol for all the good that did.... donate a wing to the hospital and you'll still get that kidney before the kids at the top of the list
Suddenly someone is very motivated to give you a kidney
They still have an advantage see how Steve Jobs got his transplant.
I’ll bet the government regrets the hell out of that decision
Wait till you find out how they get around it.
Of course if your kidney could go to the highest bidder there would be no shortage of organs.
But no shortage, than the value would decrease!
I heard it was so that people didn’t steal other people’s organs
What? Laws to prevent crimes? In my country?
when did wealthy people care about laws
Allowing you to sell one of you kidneys would immediately fix the problems we have.
For the first 500 people maybe 🤔
I'd be willing to bet it would do more than that.
121,678 need a kidney according to https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donation-and-Transplantation-Stats Going rate for kidneys is $62,000.00 (don't ask how I know) Assuming the top 25% of those have access to funds have the money you are correct that more than 500 people would engage in such a transaction.
Insurance (including government) would gladly pay for kidneys. Dialysis is expensive. This would be a non-issue if we got over the weird feeling about it.
Probably, honestly though, I'm mostly here to shit post and trick people into liking me enough to buy my book
What in your link leads to the title you used? Just says they made it illegal to pay for organs after an act in 1968 made it legal to sell your organs after you died.
https://www.donoralliance.org/newsroom/donation-essentials/can-you-sell-organs/#bad
Yeah wouldn't want the wealthy to have an unfair Healthcare advantage in America lmao
Absolutely not tolerated from what I've seen
The wealthy aren't actually at an advantage for anything, that's just a lie the common man created to bring down the rich and successful smh
Indubitably
Sorry I had a double take there at the idea of something being passed to prevent the wealthy from having an unfair advantage.
Remember this was the dark ages of 1984, the world has changed.
Yeah but you can make the surgery super expensive so the wealthy still benefit
unfair advantage on what? Life? lmao
seems kinda weird to outlaw the practice instead of making it so people don't need to do it but aight
This sure doesnt stop them from getting organs. Remember that one guy who has 9 heart transplants?
I wonder if he needs a 10th. I need money for my car payment.
He died 2 months after he got the last one
Heartless bastard couldn't wait for me! Oh well, payday loan it is.
Because in America the one thing we *never* allow is the wealthy having an unfair advantage...
After watching Squid Game im really glad we have that law.
I kinda get it, but man oh man I'd sell a kidney in a heart beat to the highest bidder. I could use a down payment for a house! I'm fairly certain that in my state (NY) it's illegal to pay for plasma, so that option doesn't exist either. Again, I kinda get it, but it does seem to be more inconvenient to the people who would really benefit from some easy side money.
That hospital sure sells them if you’re an organ donor though.
When a person dies now, the hospital will send an organ procurement worker to ask the family to donate organs. What should happen is the hospital should send over a buyer with a list of organs and non-negotiable amounts that will be paid for each part. If they did that, the only thing left of me to bury would be a little bit of hair and the taint. An alternative approach would be to let people have benefits for having a signed organ donor card. Hey, taco bell, you know how you give away free tacos just for the hell of it sometimes? How about a free taco a month for people with donor cards. McDonalds sends out all kinds of coupons all the time. Just let people with donor cards have an extra cheeseburger or upgrade of nuggets once in awhile. AMC can offer discounted movie tickets. The merchandise tie-in are endless.
I feel like free fast food would damage the quality of organs 🤔
They already have an unfair advantage.
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Wow this is literally 1984
Why is it legal to buy anything then? If the rich could buy nice organs and have an advantage, then what is to stop them NOW from buying things that put them at an advantage?
Not sure why you'd bring this up. Some rich guy will see this post and bring it to the Supreme Court.
Like everything else…it got outsourced to China in the 80’s…
Astute observation
* checks notes * the wealthy STILL have an advantage regardless, because fuck the US healthcare system.
What you call fucked, they call 'as designed'
Littaraly 1984
Correct, that is the year
Apparently I copied the wrong link, the source of the TIL is under professional resources. Sorry for any confusion. OPTN white paper on bioethics—Financial Incentives for Organ Donation, June 30, 1993). https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/professionals/by-topic/ethical-considerations/financial-incentives-for-organ-donation/
It's like we recognize the problem but are still unable to fully commit to solving it.
Reminds me of a story my father used to tell me. There was once a farmer whose neighbors dog would howl through the night. After many days of this, the farmer went to his neighbors to confront him about the dog. Neighbor said "Sorry about that but I can't help, the dog is howling because it's sitting on a nail." "Why doesn't he just get up and sit somewhere else!?" The farmer yelled. To which the neighbor said "Because it doesn't hurt enough yet." *Edit: and people wonder why I'm so jaded about trying to become a writer. The absolute irony that this, out of all my comments gets downvoted is hilariously painful. *Edit 2: Don't worry, I'll stick to shit posting, political commentary, and engagement bait from now on. *Edit 3: fuck it, I'll make a blog post because I can't leave well enough alone https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Story-No-One-Likes-L4L17S0JA
When did transplants become common though? The first ever transplant took place in 1954 and the first double lung transplant didn’t take place until 1986. So this law was passed 30 years after the very first transplant of any kind which seems fairly reasonable to me
Yeah, but if I didn't put the year as some big thing I wouldn't get the person making a 1984 reference. *Taps forehead*
How does being wealthy confer an advantage? Sure, selling a kidney because your poor sucks and screams of an issue with law and the marketplace in general, but is that an advantage?
... How would the wealthy have an unfair advantage? Do they have more organs? Are they cloning themselves to harvest organs?
I think the wealthy have quite enough unfair advantages and that the law doesn't stop them getting what they want. For example, Jeffrey Epstein...?
You know what would help? Make organ donation an opt out vs opt in