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.
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.
Don’t expect to pocket all that dough, though. The person giving up the organ only gets a fraction of the fee. Most people get $1,000 to $10,000 for their kidney (probably much less than you were hoping for).
Now why do I share this information with you? Well we all have waste that we think is necessary to live with. We can get rid of this waste and end up with something more valuable. Now what waste am I talking about? Well to be honest I have a few ideas in mind, but nothing to concrete. What I'm talking about are those things in our lives that seem to drain us, rather than motivate us. We truly need things that motivate us, these are the things that make us happy, and feel self fulfilled.
If the things that motivate us promote these good good attributes, what attributes do those things that drain us bring? Well they bring us feelings of sadness, anger, despair, basically attributes that are negative. So what do we need to do about it? Recognize! We need to recognize those things (or even people) that bring those negative feelings and surgically remove them (like unnecessary organs).
Now I'm not saying anything that causes stress is negative, stress can be positive, it can be motivating so don't go surgically removing every stressful situation you're in because then you are removing too many organs and you will DIE. That's all I have to say.
Since I threw that stuff in about Organ removal I thought I would throw some interesting facts about it after I proved my point.
Interesting facts:
1. Compensation for organs was almost legalized in the U.S.—the Organ Trafficking Prohibition Act of 2009 would allow payment to donors, but it stalled in Congress.
2. Man offering one of his for $100,000 (plus medical expenses) on Craigslist received several offers until the Web site removed his post.
3. In 1999, before eBay delisted a kidney put up for auction, bidders drove the price up to $5.75 million.
Yes, I finally decided to start a blog. I'm not exactly sure where it will go, or how "awesome" it will be, but I do know that there will be several things I will keep you posted on in this upcoming school year.