If I knew that the operation wasn’t going to be done by a guy who quote “watched a lot of Grey’s Anatomy” then I would probably already have just one kidney (and if my perfect body didn’t end up looking like the picture above). Oh, and the fact that it’s completely ILLEGAL. But who knew that body parts on the black market could bring in so much money! Most of the items you will have to be dead to sell so it kind of defeats the purpose but the ones that will bring you the most money can be given up while alive!
A website compiled a list from FBI and other government reports to figure out how much different body parts are worth on the black market. The high priced one is your Kidney and it will fetch about $262,000! Sign me up! I don’t need the other one that much. Click the jump to find out what the rest of your body is worth
–Kidney, $262,000 in the U.S., $62,000 in China, $15,000 in India.
–Liver, $157,000.
–Heart, $119,000.
–Small intestine, $2,519.
–Pair of eyeballs, $1,525.
–Coronary artery, $1,525.
–Gallbladder, $1,219.
–Skull with teeth, $1,200.
–Scalp, $607.
–Spleen, $508.
–Stomach, $508.
–Hand and forearm, $385.
–Pint of blood, $337 in the U.S., just $25 in India.
–Skin, $10 per square inch.
That means, when you die, your body could be harvested for $810,381, not counting your blood or skin, which varies by size. But your skin could get you another $30,000 or so, and your blood could add on around $3,370.
And here’s WHY there’s a black market. In the U.S., there are about 113,100 people currently waiting for an organ transplant . . . and there were 14,144 organs donated in 2011. Eighteen people die every day waiting for a transplant.
For legal purposes allow me to say, DON’T SELL YOUR BODY PARTS FOR MONEY! Its extremely unsafe in a lot of ways!
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