Selling Life To Live

When I was younger, my mom had interesting ways of warning us about wandering too far from home. When she saw that mere words wouldn’t do the trick, she resorted to other approaches and Heaven knows we bought them one after the other. She never directly talked about human traffickers, but she would tell us stories about how a person our age got kidnapped and was sold for money. These stories grew up with us, and over time, they got stuck in our heads. Years ago, my mom used to tell us about organ sellers and how they operate. Unfortunately, this issue remains unresolved. It has even become worse in today’s world.

Selling human organs is illegal. I haven’t checked to confirm yet, but I’m pretty certain that it is illegal in all countries across the world. If not, the country would be in chaos. Imagine if there were no rules guiding a person’s heart, it means people can just appear out of nowhere and start hacking lives. Although the selling of human organs is illegal, human beings have their ways of doing things. Over the years, many organ sellers have been arrested, but it seems the more they arrest them, the more they become. The black market becomes an option for sellers and buyers of human organs.

The black market exists because people are desperate. They don’t care whether the organ trade is illegal or not. They don’t care if they get arrested and locked in cells and neither do they care about the financial consequences involved. Some are desperate to the extent that they are willing to splash millions just to get an organ they want. Now, the question is, when people are willing to trade a body organ for money to make ends meet, should they have the right to do this? I mean, it is their body after all.

According to research, we can survive without a kidney. I don’t know how it works and I obviously do not know the procedure involved in it. But the fact that many people have tried it successfully means it is legit. In the world, particularly in poor countries, some people are actually going through hunger and poverty to the extent that they will gladly seize this opportunity with both hands. If they could, they would sell almost all their organs. These are the kind of people who desperate buyers look for. Desperate buyers who are on the verge of dying meet a desperate seller who has been suffering from poverty for a long time.

When these two meet, there’s a very high probability that they will strike a deal. What the Hive Learners’ community is asking us is whether the seller should have the right to sell their organs. In my opinion, if the deal between the seller and the buyer is valid, then I see no reason why this shouldn’t take place. Let’s use a donor as an example. A 40-year-old man visits the hospital and sees a graduate who is about to give up on life due to kidney failure. He decided to donate one of his kidneys to her. Now, should we say that the man shouldn’t have donated one of his kidneys because “his body is not his own.”

The truth is that our body belongs to us. Of course, our soul and body still belong to our creator, but he has given us power over the former on earth. We are free to do whatever we want with it. So, I'll put it this way: selling organs to save a life doesn't sound like a bad idea. It only becomes bad when the organ is collected through dark means and if it's used for something evil. However, if that's not the case, then people should be free to make donations however they please, as long as they fulfill all legal requirements.

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