What I mean is, what do people buy organs for? Transplants? Eating? Some other fucked up purpose I didn’t think of?

From what I know, buying human organs is a tad bit too expensive and risky to do just for shits and giggles.

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    Organ transplant.

    There’s a board who decides which patients qualify for the list. If you are someone who sat in a chair gaming, from teens to 30s, pickling your liver with alcohol for the duration, thus killing it, you won’t make that waiting list. Two reasons. You can’t be trusted to care for the new liver. You’re not a useful member of society.

    Organ transplants happen when someone young and healthy dies, is in a position that those organs can be preserved, and the family, in the midst of their horror, shock, and grief, both allows the conversation and then agrees to the donation.

    As such, if that sit in a chair gaming and pickling themself individual has a billionaire dad, maybe they go black market? Otherwise it’s hospice care.

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      As a person who has had a double lung transplant, being “useful to society” isn’t one of the dozens of criteria you must have

      Also old people can give organs and tissues, my lungs are 21 years older than I am and my donor was 51 when she died.

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        Not me. That’s is above my pay grade.

        The main point is someone has to decide.