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    Blood - 0, but you get spammed with text messages asking for more

    If somebody would seriously pay 138700$ for a kidney, I still couldn’t afford to have a kid in the city I was born in.

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        Fun fact about “donating” blood, at least in the US, is that the blood donation companies turn around and sell it to the hospitals to make money lmaooo.

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          Same thing with being an organ donor. If you die in a car crash, they will take your heart and use it for a heart transplant. They will bill the recipient an average of $1.3 million dollers for the operation. Not only does your next of kin not get a cut, but they will bill your estate for the costs of their failed attempts to save your life.

          They bill $1.3 million for your heart and they won’t even comp the ambulance ride.

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              it’s illegal to profit from the sale of organs

              Apparently not for the people who are charging transplant recipients 1.3 million for a donated heart :/

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              Is that really any different from life insurance, except with more potential to help poor people?

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      On the brightside you’d have a nice down payment for a small starter home. Gotta take wins when you can.