Will You Pay for a Kidney?

He can do normal work and everything. Only that our family does not want to see his doing manual labour after what he has done for us.

And I said yes too in a roundabout way

You make it sound so simple, almost funny :) Another kidney won't grow, but when you take one out, the other kidney becomes bigger (its called hypertrophy of organ) to compensate for the function of the lost kidney--so yeah you do make up for the functional bit. As for the last part, consider this--since appendix is an organ with no use (i'm sure you guys have heard that often enough), why don't we just take out every baby's appendix at birth to avoid the complications that can happen later, in case the appendix is inflammed? (people can die quickly if its not diagnosed in time)

Obviously there is a risk involved to the donor, as there's a risk in every procedure you do in medicine--surgery itself is major risk, then infections and trauma to the remaining kidney. Anyways that's my opinion-you don't have to agree!

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And yeah I said almost whatever Croquet said, I would pay as long as I'm not harming anyone--the donor or the recipient.

Thanks RV and koozager, I usually don't post but that was nice :)

^ You need to post more often..

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My neighbor gave her kidney to her brother. One year later she runs in 5k races again and is back to normal. There was a long recovery period and it was a painful operation, but how could you allow another person to die knowing that you are capable of saving him?

I would like to say that I would not pay for kidney, because of the ethical challenges that come with that decision, but the truth is that if I were dying of kidney failure I cannot say what I would be driven to do out of desperation.