At what point of poverty does money become worth more than your health or even your life?
What gives a person the right to sell body parts that are not theirs?
Why does this problem seem most prevalent in China? What is it about the Chinese mindset that makes this phenomenon popular in China?
Body Brokage and Transplant tourism seems to be a hot topic these days. Transplant tourism accounts for 1 in 10 transplants. Desperate people that are not eligible for transplants in their own countries are able to go to Shanghai and within 2 weeks of arriving in China, you can receive a brand new liver. China performs 4000 such surgeries a year.
In matters of life and death, human nature and greed often stand in the way. A kidney in Russian cost 25,000. A heart in South Africa cost 295000. What gives people to right to feel just when they purchase someone else’s life?
This is a sad, sad world.