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Today in the Independent it was reported Amy Friedman associate professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine saying "The demand for Life Saving organ transplantation has so outpaced supply that waiting patients and transplant teams are desparate."

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1. Kidney patients are known to have travelled abroad from Britain, mainly to India, to buy replacement organs. A survey from Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in 2002 found 29NHS patients who had bought kidneys, Half of which failed. A third of patients dieing.
People who are financially disadvantaged will be the donors. Those that have the least healthy life style are likely to be the biggest donors causing a bigger failure rate. That may lead to "Trailer Trash" selling a Kidney so making them unfit for USA military service leading to a sever shortage of Military recruits.

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Absolutely, who needs two kidneys anyway!
Hell no cause then people would be killing to save their loved ones (and it does already happen in some places). Everyone should sign their donor card on their license.
I saw this on Sky News and think it could be an option worth considering, but you'd also need to consider paying for organs from dead people and then also for sperm or egg donation (as in the UK you only get your expenses).
yes
NO because it will lead to people being murdered just for their Kidneys or Liver etc. Anything that has monetary value in this world is subject to fraud and worse so definitely NO
no !
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