Chinese teen sells HIS kidney to buy an iPad 2

Even if they manage to track down the kidney, odds are it'll have been transplanted into a patient by the time they do. They wont be able to reclaim it then.
 
I wonder how many people would do this.
You can be a living donator in the uk, but obviusly you don't get paid.
It's slightly different to say donating bone marrow as you have certain restrictions for life. But help someone else live and get paid for it.
 
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AcidHell2 said:
I wonder how many people would do this.
You can be a living donator in the uk, but obviusly you don't get paid.
It's slightly different to say donating bone marrow as you have certain restrictions for life. But help someone else live and get paid for it.
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Besides druggies and alcoholics, I don't think many people would. Despite the amount of stupid people we have in britain, I don't think many are foolish enough to put their own health at risk. Then again, having said that, if the price were large enough (20k private offer for example) then I'm sure that would be different for people who want to pay off debt etc.
 
I don't get what the problem is, you only need one kidney.

The iPad 2 is a revolutionary product that will increase his quality of life tenfold :)
 
I think it's totally unfair to call the kid an idiot. It's likely his family were very poor and maybe he wasn't particularly well educated. Not to metion the fact that he's just a kid.

It's the buyers who are to be blamed, not the 17 year old.
 
It will force him to have a 'healthy' lifestyle if he wants to live long (no alcohol etc). When it's out of date in a year or 2 he can sell half his liver, gets a bit desperate after that, maybe an eyeball?

I continue to own no apple hardware:cool:
 
Deific said:
Besides druggies and alcoholics, I don't think many people would. Despite the amount of stupid people we have in britain, I don't think many are foolish enough to put their own health at risk. Then again, having said that, if the price were large enough (20k private offer for example) then I'm sure that would be different for people who want to pay off debt etc.
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You can survive on or kidney and you would be helping to save a life and then quite probably a large sum of money on top. Although would need to read into restrictions you have with only one. You say it like it's a crazy idea. But many of us are on bone marrow list. Which is meant to be incredibly painful and for no reward.
 
AcidHell2 said:
You can survive on or kidney and you would be helping to save a life and then quite probably a large sum of money on top. Although would need to read into restrictions you have with only one. You say it like it's a crazy idea. But many of us are on bone marrow list. Which is meant to be incredibly painful and for no reward.
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I think the problem with this story isn't that he sold a body part for cash but the fact he sold it for some specific gadgets. If he had donated his kidney to save someone's life who rewarded him with something he had wanted his whole life if would be a completely different story.
 
I just feel sorry for the kid..yea it stupid, but when your in a family that cant have anything, must be a pretty desperate place to be.
 
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I think the problem with this story isn't that he sold a body part for cash but the fact he sold it for some specific gadgets. If he had donated his kidney to save someone's life who rewarded him with something he had wanted his whole life if would be a completely different story.
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I Agree spending it on that is silly as well as blackmarket, was more a general question rather than this story. However the kidney would have gone to a patient. So he kind of has fullfield your two points.
 
If he got mugged on the way home it would be like someone stealing his kidney.

Seriously though we do have it easy in the west.
 
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