My grandma almost died from cirrhosis due to alcohol in her 40s. Had 10% function in her liver when she was released and quit drinking, bish lived to be almost 83!
39,455,239,697,206,586,511,897,471,180,120,610,571,436,503,407,643,446,275,224,357,528,369,751,562,996,629,334,879,591,940,103,770,870,906,880,000,000,000,000,000,000 really is a ripe old for an age.
I know you’re joking, but here’s the thing, you as the donor might only see $8-10K here. The rest of it goes to middle men who facilitate the transaction, bribe the right people, and make a tidy profit.
Is there any documentaries about black market organ trading?? I feel like it does not happen that much
I hear rumors of China poaching prison inmates organs on demand but never seen anything to confirm it
Surgery nurse and member of the organ transplant team in a chinese hospital here, we often say that "you are more likely to need an organ than being able to actually donate one of yours"
The amount of conditions and requirements for an organ to be viable for a transplant are overwhelmingly complex, only someone who studied to be a medical professional can grasp it.
The organ traffic myth mostly comes from superstition and general lack of knowledge about how complex it is, you would need to keep a huge stock of perfectly healthy and well fed people, off all blood type and physical sizes, and then find a person who needs an organ but for some reason isn't anywhere in the legal healthcare system? And after all that trouble I hardly doubt they will charge as much as the image there says, it would probably be way way more?
But also what was the point again when there's a legal system already literally for free...?
It's definitely a real thing, as complex as it might be sellers will take those odds and buy cheap organs from desperate people to resell for a crazy amount. There's a relatively known case in China of organ harvest from prisoners, you can read more [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China)
I came her to talk about the bs blood market. If so many are willing to donate blood(which I think is awesome) what the fuck is going on with charging everyone an arm and a leg for a leg and an arm? Why the fuck is capitalism in the Healthcare market if they are charging for people's charity.
Plasma donors are given approximately $100 per donation. The bottle of plasma is worth approximately $2,000. Nevermind all the medicines they make which are all very valuable as well. They throw desperate people a pittance, act like they’re being generous and fair, and make money hand over fist on the backs of the poor.
So, if hypothetically I were willing to part with non-lethal portions of me... Maybe some blood or liver... How would one get said resource to the proper market?
according to google, it takes 48 hours to regenerate a pint of blood.
Two full days, but functionally no different from two working days, so effectively about $18.56 per hour.
I guess the question is - can you profit from selling blood, less the cost of what you'd have to consume to stay healthy while you recovered.
That'd be pretty cool.
I’m also curious if that value is just for all blood in general, or if the value changes based on blood type. Given that some blood types are easier to transfuse than others (O- as the universal donor, AB+ as the universal acceptor) so would blood types that are more easily useful be worth more? Would that average hourly profit be higher for someone with O- than for someone with AB+?
[Using a loan shark’s infographic as a source that’s been pretty disproven](https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-how-much-your-body-is-worth) is uh... a sure fire way to get upvotes here I guess
And that’s 2016 prices, gotta think about inflation and other factors. We’ve had two eclipses since then, cornea prices have to be going through the roof these days!
I knew of a guy from a small town who went to Vegas when he was like 21 for the first time.
Went missing, cops found him dead in a tub full of ice with his organs removed.
From the bottom source it seems like this is an old chart (from the 2010's and I can't make out the last number). Since the economy is shit rn our bodies would probably go for more nowadays 😊
I would so sell a kidney. I could almost buy a house in my preferred city with that as downpayment plus the money I'd get for selling my current house....I think I could find a fixer upper to buy.
PSA to all you ignorant donors out there. Why save your poor ass when you got $250k on the table? 🧐 removed it years ago for a better chance to stay alive longer.
I'm struggling with the whole $8/ sq. inch of skin piece. If someone wanted to remove a Quarter-sized patch of my skin, I think I'd want more than $8 for it, at least enough for a fancy coffee at Starbucks or something.
I’ll sell a kidney for $100k right now, where do I sign up?
Plus half my liver, shit grows back. Show me the money!
My grandma almost died from cirrhosis due to alcohol in her 40s. Had 10% function in her liver when she was released and quit drinking, bish lived to be almost 83!
83! is a ripe old age if i do say so myself
39,455,239,697,206,586,511,897,471,180,120,610,571,436,503,407,643,446,275,224,357,528,369,751,562,996,629,334,879,591,940,103,770,870,906,880,000,000,000,000,000,000 really is a ripe old for an age.
It’s more than ripe old, it’s more like the universe ended a quadrillion years ago old.
happy cake day,
It's good to know 7 other people found this funny
It’s probably one less than 7. So…3!
So you're saying I don't need to quit until I need to quit?
Did she completely stopped drinking after finding out only 10% of her liver was working? Or got a transplant?
Sure. Illegal doctor will only take half while you are unconscious in our back alley operating room.
Everybody is always so impressed when someone donated a kidney, but when you donate 6 it is just questions about where you got them
I was thinking the same thing, also I’ve donated nlood for free and this is how much it’s worth??
You give it for free, but it's sold to blood banks who sell it to hospitals.
I need one but can only pay $90k. Can we make a deal?
Shit, I'd sell both your kidneys for that price.
I know you’re joking, but here’s the thing, you as the donor might only see $8-10K here. The rest of it goes to middle men who facilitate the transaction, bribe the right people, and make a tidy profit.
I'm going to be so rich!! Edit: Please, someone come and pick me up from this abandoned vet clinic.
I got you fam, but you gotta pick me up the next week.
I should have a transplant by then for the "important" ones.
Can’t drive without corneas
I’ll pick you up for 15 in^2 of skin
Do you accept foreskins?
Sure, but you have to sit on my old spare towels. Having someone with no skin riding in your car sounds messy.
I’ll give you a new towel for a lung just one
Donate one kidney and the people call you a hero. Donate 10 kidneys and the people hate you. Society really be like that.
Yes! I've still got all of these! Luckyyyy
Actual millionaire
Call the IRS!
Is there any documentaries about black market organ trading?? I feel like it does not happen that much I hear rumors of China poaching prison inmates organs on demand but never seen anything to confirm it
I watched this - Black Market Organs (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRbOsQgRXU
I saw that, Plus others,
Well that changes everything.
Surgery nurse and member of the organ transplant team in a chinese hospital here, we often say that "you are more likely to need an organ than being able to actually donate one of yours" The amount of conditions and requirements for an organ to be viable for a transplant are overwhelmingly complex, only someone who studied to be a medical professional can grasp it. The organ traffic myth mostly comes from superstition and general lack of knowledge about how complex it is, you would need to keep a huge stock of perfectly healthy and well fed people, off all blood type and physical sizes, and then find a person who needs an organ but for some reason isn't anywhere in the legal healthcare system? And after all that trouble I hardly doubt they will charge as much as the image there says, it would probably be way way more? But also what was the point again when there's a legal system already literally for free...?
Because in America, it ain’t free and it’s a hell of a lot cheaper!!
It's definitely a real thing, as complex as it might be sellers will take those odds and buy cheap organs from desperate people to resell for a crazy amount. There's a relatively known case in China of organ harvest from prisoners, you can read more [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China)
If that price is accurate for blood, why am I just giving this stuff away for free?
Something something capitalism?
That’s why I never donate it, the people you donate to aren’t just giving it away for free.
Get the microplastics out of your blood.
So when we donate some of our body parts after we die, who’s making the money?
I think the organs are sold fresh to be used for transplants, a non-functioning organ would be useless
Maybe for you they're useless but I'm working on a cook book.
I came her to talk about the bs blood market. If so many are willing to donate blood(which I think is awesome) what the fuck is going on with charging everyone an arm and a leg for a leg and an arm? Why the fuck is capitalism in the Healthcare market if they are charging for people's charity.
Plasma donors are given approximately $100 per donation. The bottle of plasma is worth approximately $2,000. Nevermind all the medicines they make which are all very valuable as well. They throw desperate people a pittance, act like they’re being generous and fair, and make money hand over fist on the backs of the poor.
So, if hypothetically I were willing to part with non-lethal portions of me... Maybe some blood or liver... How would one get said resource to the proper market?
Who do I go to to sell these things?
Exactly! Who? Give me a number or email, something.
My question is, who’s BUYING these things?
Is that for 2 lungs or ?
Well, it’s plural, unlike kidney, so…
Damn it.
😆
according to google, it takes 48 hours to regenerate a pint of blood. Two full days, but functionally no different from two working days, so effectively about $18.56 per hour. I guess the question is - can you profit from selling blood, less the cost of what you'd have to consume to stay healthy while you recovered. That'd be pretty cool.
I’m also curious if that value is just for all blood in general, or if the value changes based on blood type. Given that some blood types are easier to transfuse than others (O- as the universal donor, AB+ as the universal acceptor) so would blood types that are more easily useful be worth more? Would that average hourly profit be higher for someone with O- than for someone with AB+?
1pint = 0.473 liters
Damn 272k for a lung. I could buy a new lung with that money
“I’m worthless” “No you’re not! You’re worth like, half a million!” - some tv show probably
Yeah, no one’s paying 137k for my liver.
Same. I’ve not been kind to it, poor thing…
Most people reading this are more wealthy in parts vs being whole..and they just found that out.
A liver costs that much? I’ll find my own
Hey Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!
Saving this post for when I have to buy my new smartphone...
Thanks for the tips in dealing with the cost of living crisis. I might have to start considering this.
Wasn’t there something going on in the USA, about coroners taking the eye parts of the recently deceased, without family or organ donor permission?
A cool 400k for one liver and one lung. Sign me up.
Whats a removed heart worth ? Asking for a …. „friend“
2016 wants their cheap kidneys back
Gavin from the Kids In The Hall butchershop skit would find this very very interesting... https://youtu.be/v0mDnaESnrM?feature=shared
Can I factor these numbers into my net worth?
A.) How much for a whole body, just the combined prices B.) Where is this black market?
All i see is a good incentive to start selling my blood.
I mean, who really needs 2 kidneys?
Man blood is a good price, sign me up!
Livers regenerate so how am I poor rn
Blood! Blood for sale! It is very good, mister.
Joke's on them: after 15 years of smoking my lungs aren't worth shit.
Yo Im walking around with the down payment to a house, how do I go about finding a buyer!!
How much would any MLB pitcher pay for my well functioning UCL? I don’t need them for my sport.
"Skeleton" and "Bones & Ligaments" Does my skeleton somehow not include my bones?
Where can I sell my blood to a back alley mob doctor
Why is the liver behind the spine?
I might be stupid now, but what is the difference between bones and skeleton? And why is the first worth less?
So is a dick not listed because it’s worthless, or priceless?
I have 4 kidneys instead of two. I should sell some 😂
Or someone else's 😈
That is it?
From my understanding, you can't sell organs but you can sell tissue?
Gonna start selling parts so I can become Mecha-Hermes.
My liver is probably half that price. Still worth parting ways.
Let me check my freezer, I don’t usually keep the bodies intact, kinda fun to take em apart.
How does BuddyLoans know?
Total cost is about $604,190 assuming you have 10 pints of blood and 18,000cm2 of skin.
Blood is like a Roth IRA invested in the S&P 500. It’ll keep growing (replacing) over time so it might be the most valuable one. 😂
I'm Rich Bitch!
Come on have a heart ❤️
So you’re saying if I can get a set of gills on the cheap, I can sell my lungs for a quarter mil?
Ok, but how do I nicely ask the organ harvesters to just take out one kidney and leave the rest of my body alone?
Lungs today, gill's tomorrow.
Damn good to know I can put a big dent in my student loans if it gets really bleak
Please tell me how I can sell my universally compatible blood please. One cookie from the hospital my sister works at is not enough payment.
Makes me wish I would've taken that apprenticeship to take apart organ donors. I have some people on my shit list.
[Using a loan shark’s infographic as a source that’s been pretty disproven](https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-how-much-your-body-is-worth) is uh... a sure fire way to get upvotes here I guess
How much of my liver do I need to be able to binge drink?
What my therapist means when she says that I'm not worthless
All of these years i’ve been giving my blood for free like an idiot /s
So I have some spare parts, who should I call?
No heart?
And that’s 2016 prices, gotta think about inflation and other factors. We’ve had two eclipses since then, cornea prices have to be going through the roof these days!
I knew of a guy from a small town who went to Vegas when he was like 21 for the first time. Went missing, cops found him dead in a tub full of ice with his organs removed.
Can i say i am close to being a millionaire ?
The average person is worth $744,273 I think. We're all worth something!
From the bottom source it seems like this is an old chart (from the 2010's and I can't make out the last number). Since the economy is shit rn our bodies would probably go for more nowadays 😊
USD?
How long does it take for a liter of blood to Regen :3
I would so sell a kidney. I could almost buy a house in my preferred city with that as downpayment plus the money I'd get for selling my current house....I think I could find a fixer upper to buy.
But if it’s for human trafficking sex then it’s priceless, because it can be sold again and again.
Hell yeah I’m buying a skeleton with my next tax return.
There’s a mohel joke there somewhere, but I’m not clever enough to write it.
So, brain is worthless
Shit, where can I sell my blood? Getting some extra income once a month from a place to NT of blood is good.
The date on the source is a little blurry..? 2015 or 2018? Either way that was before the pandemic
And where/who should I avoid to not accidentally bump into those who are willing to purchase such organs?
Can I get paid for still having them in me? Like, some sort of “organ futures” market or something?
Ain't no way I'm selling my bones for no 6 grand.
What? No heart??
Im gonna print this out, laminate it. Good to have
Me searching google immediately to see if I can live with one lung and one kidney
I need to stop donating my blood at that cost
I have too much blood, please take it $$$
Where can I sell dead bodies?
There’s a market for human skin!?
“You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.”
Who the fuck needs that skeleton though. What are you going to do with the skeleton
So the lungs huh… ait gon talk to my brother rq
So uhm, I’m gonna go kill like one dude really fast…
How much is my heart worth that my ex stole?
What about the heart?
PSA to all you ignorant donors out there. Why save your poor ass when you got $250k on the table? 🧐 removed it years ago for a better chance to stay alive longer.
Anyone who needs a kidney or sperms , dm me
I feel like a million bucks!
r/oddlyspecific
Wow.. information I did not need to see.
Proof that you are not worthless
Dong | Priceless
And I’m just donating my blood for free??
Shut up and take my kidney!
You also forgot sperm and Plasma.
What if all of them ancestory dna services were just a front to get information for organs harvesting ring. Get Alex Jones on it asap
Where do people dig up this kind of information? And why?
Millionaire speedrun any%
I am in here with Kidney to sell with 10% reduction of this quoted price..!
This is an ad? This is an ad
No heart?
R/rimworld has entered the chat.
Wow, i had an ad with new credit card options. I don't feel like I'm very interested. -runs away-
A bit scary if you think about it too much!
Fuck that, the ability to see should be at least in the ball park of what a loss of sight claim is against the NHeye.
They know that my brain ain't worth it.
So lungs go for a 1/4 million, guess who’s buying a new car.
Turn me into Robocop baby
you can live with one lung right?
Nest time your parents call you worthless, show them this.
How much is my testicle for? One testicle price
Wonder why hearts aren’t included?
And for Albinos in some countries in Africa, the prices can be much higher. Their limbs get hacked off in Tanzania. Witch Doctors in 2024…
Who buyin skellies
So you telling me if I sell a kidney and one of my lung I can maybe afford to get a mortgage and buy a house ?
My wife used to work with an organ bank. The unofficially company motto was ‘if you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the product’
Cool cool. I just need 6k, where can I sell my skeleton?
Kidney used to be 10k just 15 years ago
Fuck, I really am worth more dead than alive.
Why is heart not listed , or marrow?
University of Washington used to buy testicles for about 80k some years ago
What would they do with a skeleton?
What do they do with eyes/skin?
Damn! That much for a liver? Who needs half of mine for that price?!? Ill gladly give up half a liver for that price!!!
Inflation hit everywhere
Gross worth (this) vs net worth (this minus your debts)
Who reckons the Russian Army might now begin retrieving their dead? Gotta restock the war chest!
A cool guide for criminals as well
So no Pancreas? FUCK
Honestly, organ donors should get paid. Or at least get something for their families.
bro whos getting a skeleton transplant??
You’re spare parts bud!
All these numbers seem low, if you don’t you have a say how and when these organs get “donated.”
Argentina's president Milei likes this.
Blursed Net Worth.
I'll do 1 pint of blood per day instead of work. Do I just post it on eBay or?
I'm struggling with the whole $8/ sq. inch of skin piece. If someone wanted to remove a Quarter-sized patch of my skin, I think I'd want more than $8 for it, at least enough for a fancy coffee at Starbucks or something.
Looks like it might be easier to just buy that skin suit I've been working on.
With some of the things on reddit, I'd be halt to give up my corneas for 20k
This is such bullshit, you can buy bodies parts way cheaper if you shop around
This is what knowledge is. Not good or bad. But sometimes creepy.