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Edit: Allow me to clarify that I mean rights to organs after a natural death, not during life.
Picture this: You go to an organ broker. She gives you a quotation for the rights to your organs for one year, should you die of natural causes. You look at the sheet. You can get over a thousand dollars per year, but you have to swear a number of affidavits about different aspects of your health. If you give up smoking, you can make another $200 per year. Just getting a checkup every year gives you $500. Maintaining a healthy weight gives you another few hundred per year. If you drink two sodas per day, there's a $50 deduction.
Of course there should be laws against bonuses for risky behavior, and the broker should lose rights in case of suicide.
But money is a language almost everybody speaks, and this puts personal health in financial terms.
I guess I consider accidents as "natural."
Do you mean dying of old age?
I meant anything except suicide and murder.
It would be a boring movie if it did go well
In the US it's pretty bad, but in the first world there's single payer health insurance.
I didn't advocate for any kind of payout after death, though.
I'm not even one of them though, and honestly advocating sharing money from a lucrative source with the average person is more socialist than capitalist. Capitalists don't go around advocating for higher wages or mandatory profit sharing schemes.
By natural death I just mean "not suicide."
That's not what I'm talking about, though. Inheritors sometimes kill their family members, that doesn't mean the idea of inheritance is morally wrong.
People are making lots of money on the organ business, but the organ makers are making nothing from it.
I admit I said "highest bidder" and then mentioned a broker. But in most cases using a broker would be better.
I forgot about people selling organs while they are alive, I don't mean to promote that. I only meant selling the rights to your organs after you die.
Yes, they might be the ones paying directly sometimes -- in pretty much any country the rich can pay more for exclusive healthcare -- but otherwise it can be paid for by insurance.
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