Someone opens up
a briefcase full of cash
and tells you, it’s yours.
All you have to do
is give up
one of your kidneys.
How much money
does that briefcase
have to have in it
for you to say, “Okay!”?
I mean, on the one hand you only technically need one. Of course, you have no idea who the other kidney is going to. You could be saving an evil dictator for all you know. But so much cash! And all of this is under the table! No one’s reporting any of this to the I.R.S. You’d never have to work again. Your family’s future would be secure. You could buy that cute island you always wanted.
I’m reminded of an old joke where a rich asshole offers a woman a million dollars to sleep with him. After she agrees, he reduces the offer to twenty dollars. When she takes offense, he smugly responds that they’ve established her moral character and are now negotiating the price. My interpretation of the story is that the asshole was negotiating in bad faith as a way of flaunting his wealth and stroking his own ego. Money is nice to have, but it isn’t everything. If someone I loved needed a kidney and I was their best match, I’d donate it… Read more »
Funny, but as we all joke about it here, this is actually happening in third world countries! I mean, here I am watching this Docu. on the Nat-Geo channel and they’re showing people in India, Bangladesh and that region of the world with surgical scars from where Kidneys have been ‘Harvested’ for sale on the ‘Donor Market’! I swear, every day the World becomes just a little less Human.
Not to be a downer, but I was thinking along those lines, too.
Ten million for the left one or fifty million for the right (it’s my favorite and I wouldn’t want to part with it unless it was substantially more money).
Ten million.
And I want a large statue of my kidney erected in Central Park.
“Coma” was such a freaky movie…and the main reason I’m terrified to sign a donor card. THANKS, MICHAEL CRICHTON.
I’m not parting with my organs unless circumstances are dire. That being said, I’d need at least $10 million. #PricingMyselfOutOfTheMarket
This is a weird way to ask me for a kidney, Allan, but it’s yours. You could have just DMed.
If they’re covering medical bills, I’d say… however much to make up for the time off work I’m missing, plus a nanny for that long? I’m not that attached to my organs.
That’s so nice, Dottie. If you need my kidney too, you can have it, but you have to pay for shipping. That shizz is expensive.
Okay if it were my circumstances NOW I would say nothing – but if i were really struggling to feed my kids and we were destitute it would probably be as low as a million dollars or something.
A friend on FB said she’d do it for $20,000. I told her she was the WalMart of black market organ donors.
$1,000,000,000.99 – that should cover 20+ years of living a life of comfortable leisure, plus the medical bills that are sure to arise when the remaining one goes south. Wait, this is the U.S. Better add an extra billion for the health care bill 😛