• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

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