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From: ferreter <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, September 04, 1999 8:36 AM
Subject: Non shell related ORGAN DONORS


>Good Saturday morning gang ...
>Yesterday (Friday) Ebay on-line auctions had a very unusual item , A HUMAN
>KIDNEY!!!
>Before the "cyber police" pulled the plug the bids reached 6 million
>dollars. So what's the big problem with selling one of your extra kidneys ?
>Maybe it's two fold , thou shall not commit self harvesting unless it's
>donated (free of course)  to some organ bank which in turn SELLS your
>"donated " organ for hundreds of thousands of dollars !!!
>I'm one of the fools who actually carry a donor card on the back of my
>license, but it has always bugged the hell out of me that some shmuck who
>has the money will be pushed to the front of the "donor list" and the truly
>needy will just have to wait for the leftovers . Case in point was when a
>famous retired Baseball player who drank like a fish all his life was in
>dire need of a liver , instead of having to wait for years the perfectly
>matched liver was immediately available,,,,go figure!!!!! this was the
point
>that I felt the system was corrupted but I'll still keep my donor card and
>I'm, contemplating having a painful marrow sample taken so as to be put on
>the marrow donors list ,,,,
>Did you know that in South Africa , the brain dead patents are taken for
>harvesting with little opposition this is not the case here in America,
only
>10-20% of the families release the bodies for harvesting , all those
>perfectly good kidneys, corneas, marrow, livers, hearts , lungs and other
>parts just get buried and rot never to help someone in need , but hey we
>wouldn't want to violate some antiquated religious right .
>So why not let people donate a single kidney? you can live without one.
>Well time for another cup of delicious coffee and I think while I'm up I'll
>give those kidneys a try as coffee runs right through me,,,,, ferreter


I'm a new kid on this internet thing and only have one shell in my
collection, a glued together, shelaced surf clam. That is why it probably
escapes me what in sam hill has kidney donations have to do with mollusks.

hank