How much would people pay for a kidney?
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In a hypothetical market where selling organs was legal -- a kidney would not likely gain as high a price as say a heart or lung.
If you're talking about only organs that the hypothetical seller could take from his own body -- a kidney would still not be as valuable as a piece of a liver.
The reason is that without liver function, the patient will die. Without kidney function, the patient can go on living for a long time -- the quality of life is not particularly high with regular dialysis, but living is quite doable.
That said, the value of anything is based solely on its worth to someone else. A very rich person who did not want to bother with dialysis, was too early in the game to qualify for a cadaver transplant through normal channels, and had no family or friends willing to donate, could conceivably pay millions.
In third world countries where there have been documented cases of people selling organs, the going rate is about a year's pay (which translates into a couple thousand, American.)
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i dont think you just buy kidneys. if you need one there is like some kind-of list of people that are willing to donate and the hospital will get one for you
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