Have you ever, like everyone else, wondered how much your body, perhaps your heart, or perhaps a kidney, might be worth? Here you will know how much each one of them is worth.
How much your body parts are worth: you’ve probably wondered
According to Theunissen, more than 1,000 people on the waiting list for a transplant will die in the United Kingdom this year alone. In addition, tens of thousands of couples who cannot conceive children will turn to egg or sperm banks to try to find a solution to their problem.
“Almost everything the Lord gave us can be sold,” she says. Moreover, the business is growing, but those who intend to sell part of their anatomy to pay debts or try to survive the crisis are going to be “very disappointed” because “the price will not be as high as they imagined”.
His first stop was a hairdresser’s in central London. There she was offered just under 62 euros for her hair to make natural hair wigs for patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
The next visit was to a blood bank, where she was paid less than 40 euros for the collection.
At another clinic she was offered 60 euros for samples of her skin, but only if she had psoriasis, and via the Internet she received another surprising offer from a fetish website: 37 euros for a vial of her urine.
None of these offers convinced her, so she went to a fertility clinic. There they examined her, physically and mentally, and put a price on her eggs: the reproductive capacity of a beautiful 32-year-old university student is worth 12,000 euros.
The kidney, the most valuable organ
In the United States, a country in which donations do not even reach 10% of the organs awaited by sick patients -which causes 18 people to die every day-, the organ market is much more widespread and there are even calls for the legalization of a system of payments or retribution to organ donors.
Perhaps for this reason, the organization Medical Transcription, which fights against the commodification of health, has published a graph showing the price that different body parts fetch on the U.S. black market.
A heart, for example, costs about 90,000 euros, while a liver costs more than 120,000 euros. However, no human organ reaches the value of a kidney, the star of the market, for which 200,000 euros are offered. More affordable are eyeballs, which are priced at 1,162 euros per pair, or a hand, which costs only 275 euros.
