The price of a kidney ( this is truly sickening)

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/kidney-0329/
The ability of the medical industry to replace the diseased or injured vital organs of individuals with those from another person is undoubtedly seen as a near miracle by those who receive the donated organ. From another point of view, donating an organ is also a sign of the greatest human solidarity. Even donating the organ of someone accidentally dying is an act of human consciousness. That of someone close, probably a relative to allow a better genetic match, is a great sacrifice for another human being.

In a society built on solidarity it could be expected that organs would become available because enough people would voluntarily offer theirs—at least upon their death—to aid other human beings.

[SheilaT]

1. The real problem

is that not enough people donate organs upon their death. Or, perhaps more accurately, the surviving family members are not willing to allow such donations.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. AGREED

what are you going to do with them when you're dead? I find the above story horrifying because now everything from cheap labor, organs, and a cure to getting "undesirables" off the streets is now being provided to our country through for-profit prison systems. I expect our prison populations to grow as the gap between rich and poor becomes more defined. This is a new slavery where we take the most oppressed in society and harvet their organs, their labor for 30 cents a day (increasing profits for the rich, and taking working class jobs), and rather than creating a social safety net, racism will be used to lock up all the untapped labor pool.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. And it is easy

to sign up for organ donation when you get your driver's license.