Just looking to see if anyone has come across any deals for kidneys? I’m in the market for one but of course I want to get the best deal I can.
In all seriousness though, please consider registering to become an organ donor. You can sign up here
Any Deals on a Kidney?
sharks on 12/11/2017 - 12:22
Last edited 12/11/2017 - 12:31 by 1 other user
Last edited 12/11/2017 - 12:31 by 1 other user
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Any Deals on a Kidney?
if i was short on money, id sell you mine.
You 'could' get the new iPhone?
already have it.
And it didn't cost you a kidney? Well done sir.
But did it cost your an arm and a leg?
Reminds me of that one liner: I'd give an arm to be ambidextrous!
Wow sorry Mr I Can Afford to Keep my Kidney
I saw a two-pack discounted to $1.07 at Woolies. Only catch is, it must be used today.
Looking for something a little bigger
You can get kidney beans for 80 cents at coles. comes in a can too.
Why don't you go to China and pick one live from one of the prisoners, like choosing a live fish from a Chinese restaurant swimming in a tank?
Don’t think organ trade is legal in China
I don't think that's a problem if your wallet's deep enough.
We’re all here for a bargain though
Pretty sure that applies everywhere. Just a difference in price.
OzBargain kidneys test too highly for jerky and Nickel Metal Hydride/Rainbow sparkle exposure.
Don't forget the Spam :)
Just so you know: just signing up to be an organ donor DOES NOT MEAN your organs will be donated even if viable upon your death. If your family members say no, that's the end of the story.
Talk to whoever will be in charge when you're gone about your decision as well.
Great advice
Did not know this, i'm going to have a hearty talk to my family soon
You're kidney me.
I just need something to liverage my opinion..
I back my organ pixie mischief to be able to occupy the donor body.
Try Airtasker?
Also, if there's anyone out there who's banned from donating blood because of the BSE scare (so mostly Brits), it's still worth signing up as they can use your organs! It's a great way to give back to your adopted country. :)
that was in the 80's, and i'm still not allowed to give blood………………
Same here. I guess they reckon the potential risk of vCJD is greater than the benefit of extra blood donors. Doesn't make much sense to me, but I'm not a doc.
Anyway, at least I can give a kidney.
you xxxx one cow…… !
vCJD are prions which are kind of like viruses - they can stay inert basically indefinitely. Plus, one bad donor can ruin an entire batch of donated blood/blood products, so definitely not worth it.
I lost my brother in a motorbike accident many years ago. He was signed up as a registered donor and my sister-in-law was brave enough to go with his wishes. The only good thing that came out of it was he lives on in a number of other people. I agree with the OP - sign yourself up and make sure the people around you know, and agree, with your wishes.
There is a saying "don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them here".
Such a sad story but it’s great to see that he could improve others lives.
Australia should move into an opt-out system, not an opt-in-yet-can-be-ignored system.
Corneas should be kept opt in. You don't want to find yourself in the afterlife missing those.
Yes, but if you opt out than you should be ineligible to receive that organ too.
Don't worry, I apply a 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' philosophy on organs. I'm one of those evolution believing crackpots. Organ donation scientifically causes more genetic problems downstream, just dumps them on future generations, pyramid style, based on short term and selfish human emotion, rather than rationality.
@Frugal Rock: try doing dialysis everyday, limiting your fluid and eating a strict diet. It would change your mind very quickly. Plus medicine is always improving
@sharks:
Firstly, your advice to receive spurious dialysis is unethical and ridiculous. Secondly, my mind will not be changing based on incoherent and emotional anecdotes. I'm going to go ahead and stick with rational science rather than your emotional and self interested alternative.What about if the organ is failing due to accident, injury, or non-genetic disorder?
Also, references? Many genetic disorders are recessive and would not necessarily manifest in later generations if there's one healthy parent.
Also, surely you believe in natural birth, as otherwise we are devolving into little waisted women and massive unviable babies, right?
@ozbjunkie:
I'll nominate bone marrow transplants for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Survival rates are going up. Diagnoses are going up. Maybe you could say it's only radiation exposure, but there's a fairly large slice of anti-Darwinism going on. The US is reporting rates of 13 per 100K in 1975, 17 in 2005. I cannot really see how survival rates going up will do anything other than increase future cases.If survival rates increase to nearly 100% then perhaps incidence matters less.
I'd be dead from asthma without medication…
Also, you failed to address my questions. I didn't ask for a specific example of a disorder you are against treating. I asked about a range of non-genetic causes of organ transplants - which you are apparently against treating.
Then I asked if you were in favour of natural birth and implicitly questioned whether you would be happy for you or partner (or kids) to die in childbirth rather than receive devolving medical intervention.
@ozbjunkie:
You were busy in your strawman cycle that waists were shrinking. I didn't want to cut in. That's all yours. Where is your scientific data on that pearl.Credit to you for at least being realistic that the science of vastly assisted childbirth is explictly against the Darwinism taught in schools. Targeting survival rates of 100% is pretty naive in the long run. The flaw of yours is not reading in the comment history that I wasn't being proactively preachy about organ donation. I was responding to someone saying I shouldn't get their organs with two separate comments prizing their precious gift of increasing genetic diseases. Fine, I've ably demonstrated my personal choice and care factor. I don't protest Westboro style, but if the virtual martyr brigade want to withdraw their organs in a facile stunt, I'll happily respond with some scientific facts. They can have their organ collective but don't pretend everyone wants to be a part. They don't.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be' philosophy on organs. I'm one of those evolution believing crackpots. Organ donation scientifically causes more genetic problems downstream"
Was just questioning your serious intention to adhere to the values underpinning your philosophy. Also, you didn't qualify your stance on organ transplants as solely against those related to genetic disorders… which of course would be countered by the argument that we are sometimes unsure whether something is partially genetic.
I dont think it's a strawman argument to say that you wish for all lifeforms to be viable without intervention - unless you're against organ donation but not any other form of intervention. Would seem hard to justify a focus on organ donation alone given your justification.
@ozbjunkie:
You'll notice that was a direct response to the withdrawal from hypothetical future offer by another. What proportion of heart-lung transplants are injury rather than congenital? Is there a box on the consent form for the nature of final destination. I think both statistically and logistically that argument is nebulous. Do you question that the majority of organ transplants go to diseases with a significant genetic risk factor?Any scientific evidence of your theory of shrinking waistlines would be entertaining. Do go ahead.
Not sure of the proportion, but your statement was a blanket one.
Seems no, you won't confirm to adhere to those stated values.
I don't blame you.
4/10 for your soliloquy deflection attempt. You've been caught inventing that waists are getting smaller. Fact. They're not.
@ozbjunkie:
You have confused waist and pelvis/hips. How did you manage that? Where in your story does it mention waist size as you erroneously did? Your story actually mentions an increase in obesity.Have a think why there is a bust/waist/hips measurement standard. We should make it bust/waist/waist in your confused honour. They should start doing waist replacement surgery on old people, with titanium ball and socket waists. I think you and ignorance are joined at the waist, or is it now waist to be square?
Actually I only mentioned it in jest and hyperbole, and was somewhat surprised to find anything on the topic.
It was mentioned to explore some of the implications of your stance on eugenics.
You still haven't addressed any of my questions on your intended practices, but that's ok - your aversion to answering is an answer in itself.
@ozbjunkie:
Addressing questions? Where is your proof of decreasing waist sizes? Run Forrest, run.Shows how little you understand of science, that you don't know the difference between natural selection and eugenics. You might want brush up on that and your understanding of antonyms.
You're right, should have written hips and not waist. My mistake.
Address that point, with the hips substituted for waist?
@ozbjunkie:
Of course assisting childbirth affects birth canal and pelvic traits of later generations. It's the most obvious Darwin feedback loop there is. I've had to assist neighbours delivering calves because breeding of cows has chosen high birth weights to the point that some cows can't give birth unassisted. You need a 500kg winch and multiple grown men and a stockade to do something meant to be natural. Human caesarians are harder to determine as many are elective/convenience and some are just to meet doctors' golf schedules. Do I care? Not much, personally. Is it scientific fact? Hells yeah.Thanks for the reply.
So, would this idea influence your opinions on your loved ones' childbirth practices? Just trying to understand whether these beliefs can really be applied within contexts of personal relevance to you.
My experience is it is one thing to have well-reasoned ideas, and another to put these into practice to one's own personal detriment.
I personally don't want an unhealthy gene pool, but I would have a hard time seeing someone die rather than receive medical intervention (whether that be from organ transplants, or during pregnancy, or any other genetically relevant condition).
Still wondering how these ideas would affect your medical decision making for self, partner, and kids.
Do you actually live by these principles or are they something you say but don't do?
@ozbjunkie:
You overthink things and project your own circumstances on others. I haven't been to a doctor since breaking a wrist in school. That was set, but technically I was a minor. I've had no medical treatment ever as an adult. I have the full set of wisdom teeth, so even they haven't been pulled. I'm happy to drop dead whenever, and if I get notice, I'm going skydiving. Other people who are less well want to project their selfish and self-serving concerns on others. I'm not picketing outside hospitals, but if people are stupid enough to say I won't get their precious organs, deal with the fact that I don't want them. It's not a moral choice either way. There is a scientific choice and a perceived future benefit selfish choice. Behind morals are simply survival behaviours. For some, herd mentality improves their odds. Not all. I think gofundme campaigns are abhorrent, and yes I will be giving my money to healthy young people to enjoy or educate rather than spending it on myself for arbitrarily prolonging the inevitable. In parts of China, the elderly walk quietly off to freeze themselves when it's time. In the Amazon, untouched tribes willingly eat death berries at the age of 30. Our solution to spend a lifetime fearing death and then prolonging the dying process is a ridiculous voluntary choice.
I disagree. As much as I support organ donations, they're YOUR organs. They should stay with you unless you (or your family rather) expressly say otherwise.
try2helpful and lainey13, I couldn't agree more.
I've been a registered organ donor (both in my country of birth and in Australia) since the age of 18, and I encourage everyone to consider it.
So do I, once enough of you sign up I shall go harvesting to make myself into superman. 8 hearts should do it…
My husband is a kidney recipient, he would be dead by now if his donor was not an awesome person.
Please sign up, you can’t taje them with you.You can also register to donate your body to science - my mother's organs weren't viable so she did this instead. Check with your local medical school/university to get the paperwork.
Once they have finished with her body, the ashes will be returned to us.
In Sydney there is also now a 'body farm' that accepts people's bodies for research into decomposition and the like.
I do believe that if you won't be a donor, you should not be allowed to be a recipient.
Reasonable enough, but also that donors and recipients take responsibility for the increase of the genetic diseases they carry and impose on future generations.
Why? What if that particular donor thinks that even non-donors should be able to receive their organs?
There's so many on the transplant list that it wouldn't go to waste. Surely if you believe in organ donation to the extent that you'd be happy to receive one, you should also be happy to give.
I had a manager with lung disease waiting for a transplant. He even had the whole film crew treatment documenting the wait and whole inspirational process. He got the heart-lung transplant and died shortly after. The documentary got scrapped and was never shown. They don't show the unbecoming realities so as to stage manage the public.
Lots of animal kidneys at Coolies. :)