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.
Rich people sometimes have bad organs and need transplants. They’re willing to pay a lot for a new one so they don’t have to wait in line with the plebs. Organ trafficking is how they achieve this.
So I just buy one, walk into a hospital with it in my igloo lunch box, and they install it?
No, the reseller installs the organ for you. When you’re that rich everything you buy comes with white glove installation included.
When you have black market organ money, the doctors come to you.
No that’ll get you arrested. You can just buy the supplies at home depot and watch a YouTube tutorial
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.
Transplants. Supply/demand.
Exactly. Too much demand and not enough supply. People get desperate and will look for a way to buy the organ.
I figured that that seems like the most logical reason, but why do people not just get a transplant from a donor at a hospital?
The amount of people that donate organs is far lower than the need. We really ought to have an opt out system. Other people need your inside meat more than the embalmer does.
More people need a transplant than there are donors. A lot of people die waiting for an organ. Some people are willing to skip the wait list and get their organ from non willing donors.
Because the waitlist is often very long. On top of a limited supply, there are other limiting factors, e.g. if you’re already really old and sick, the organ that becomes available will likely go to a candidate that’s more likely to have a successful transplant instead, such as a healthier kid or something.
There is a waiting list, and not all those people have the time to wait. I’m sure insurance is also a large part.
People rich enough to pay for black market organs don’t need to worry about health insurance.
There are more people needing organs then there are organs available for transplant. Which is why you will sometimes hear of a waiting list for transplants.
If you have enough money instead of going on the pleb list you buy an organ from someone and you don’t ask how they got the organ.
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die
To keep Keith Richards alive.
