Driving into the office yesterday (the start of the Cricket World Cup), I saw an advert on the side of the road - those newspaper ones - which said "Man offers kidney for Cricket World Cup ticket". I thought to myself, how absurd. How stupid does one need to be to sell their kidney (or any other organ) for a ticket to the Cricket World Cup!
Then I had a long think while I was at the office about what would it take for me to offer an organ up for sale. I think I'd offer up a kidney for R250k - definitely. Think about it, you could pay some serious debt off, buy a cool car for cash, go on a world tour, etc, etc. AND you would also help someone in need - I see this as a win-win situation here.
Think about it, how much would you sell an organ for?
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I don't think R250k is enough. Maybe I'm just greedy. R250k makes a nice big dent in the homeloan, but not enough.
I was thinking about this whole Mantu liver-transplant thing. I've always been skeptical about the whole organ donor thing. If you for instance say you'll donate your liver and kidneys in the case of your death, I suspect that you could come to an untimely death when some rich millionaire needs an organ and they find that you're a match. They wouldn't want to wait for you to die, they could make it happen?
Rather make your organs for sale, than for-have-if-I-die... :-)
Yeah, I think that is rather cheap too, it would have to be mucha millions for me to go under the knife for money !!!
Love your blog by the way :-)
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