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Poll: Would you sell your kidney for £60k?
Show me the money
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33.33%
No thank you
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66.67%
Can you actually 'donate' a kidney in exchange for money to real doctors on like the NHS or something?
And what would be the going rate for a healthy kidney?
And what would be the going rate for a healthy kidney?
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so turns out in the UK it is illegal to sell a kidney. nonetheless the going rate is £60,000 on the black market.
Who would consider it?
Who would consider it?
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(Original post by swarly)
so turns out in the UK it is illegal to sell a kidney. nonetheless the going rate is £60,000 on the black market.
Who would consider it?
so turns out in the UK it is illegal to sell a kidney. nonetheless the going rate is £60,000 on the black market.
Who would consider it?
Personally, I am enjoying my two-kidney situation.
£60,000 wouldn't even get you half a house round these parts.
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(Original post by Puddles the Monkey)
Nice research
Personally, I am enjoying my two-kidney situation.
£60,000 wouldn't even get you half a house round these parts.
Nice research
Personally, I am enjoying my two-kidney situation.
£60,000 wouldn't even get you half a house round these parts.
imagine owning a rock, but you could never use it for anything functional, or do anything with it; nonetheless you could sell it for £60,000. would you do it?
60 thou tax free is a life changing amount of money.
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(Original post by Genocidal)
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
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(Original post by Genocidal)
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
worst case scenario, you invest the money, and if you ever need another kidney, you just buy it back with the money you invested, and still have profit left over.
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(Original post by swarly)
but you only need one...
worst case scenario, you invest the money, and if you ever need another kidney, you just buy it back with the money you invested, and still have profit left over.
but you only need one...
worst case scenario, you invest the money, and if you ever need another kidney, you just buy it back with the money you invested, and still have profit left over.
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(Original post by Puddles the Monkey)
I don't think you can just swap your kidneys in and out like that
I don't think you can just swap your kidneys in and out like that
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(Original post by swarly)
but regardless, you only need one kidney. why not just sell the other?
but regardless, you only need one kidney. why not just sell the other?
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(Original post by iEatMuFFiNS)
Far better ways to get £60k
Far better ways to get £60k
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(Original post by Puddles the Monkey)
What if I have a freak accident which damages my one kidney?? £60k will be useless to me then
What if I have a freak accident which damages my one kidney?? £60k will be useless to me then
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(Original post by Puddles the Monkey)
What if I have a freak accident which damages my one kidney?? £60k will be useless to me then
What if I have a freak accident which damages my one kidney?? £60k will be useless to me then
but essentially its a matter of accounting.
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(Original post by swarly)
pretty sure you can buy one back. if you sold yours to someone who needed it, pretty sure you could buy one back when you need it.
but essentially its a matter of accounting.
pretty sure you can buy one back. if you sold yours to someone who needed it, pretty sure you could buy one back when you need it.
but essentially its a matter of accounting.
(Original post by Hype en Ecosse)
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(Original post by swarly)
pretty sure you can buy one back. if you sold yours to someone who needed it, pretty sure you could buy one back when you need it.
but essentially its a matter of accounting.
pretty sure you can buy one back. if you sold yours to someone who needed it, pretty sure you could buy one back when you need it.
but essentially its a matter of accounting.
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(Original post by Genocidal)
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
£60,000 is terrible value to give away one of your kidneys.
It's actually quite expensive for a single kidney.
You'd probably fetch more if you sold a portion of your liver.
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(Original post by Puddles the Monkey)
Once you've had a kidney removed, can you put a new kidney back in the same place...? Won't all the connecting parts be gone?
You know about these things.
Once you've had a kidney removed, can you put a new kidney back in the same place...? Won't all the connecting parts be gone?
You know about these things.
i dont see why not?
at one point there connecting points will have to be cut too?
Also, all of this is a tangent. it is unlikely you will need another one, when you only needed one in the first place anyway.
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(Original post by RollerBall)
You're not a medic, are you? Go look up the ramifications of a kidney transplant and you'll realise it's no where near as simple as just "getting another one". This is even assuming they could find a match in time (if you lost your only kidney in a traumatic incident for example).
You're not a medic, are you? Go look up the ramifications of a kidney transplant and you'll realise it's no where near as simple as just "getting another one". This is even assuming they could find a match in time (if you lost your only kidney in a traumatic incident for example).
but you only need one kidney, so this talk of having to find another one is quite irrelevant, no?
anyway at 60k, the risk/reward is there.
if you've ever been on the dark web, you'd see how cheaply people are willing to kill others, and how little value there can be placed on life.
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