Once again, there is a call for an 'opt out' scheme regarding organ donation. Well, in an age where everybody is tightening their metaphorical belts and everything and everybody has a cost, I put this to you; why shouldn't we charge the NHS for the donation of our organs?
We are always being told, particularly if we smoke, drink or do stuff like extreme sports, that we cost the NHS/taxpayer £100 zillion pounds a year. Well, if we're financial commodities, then our organs are commodities too, something that we have and others want, so why shouldn't we place a price on our body, as the government and NHS do? Why not bow to the inevitable, and let market forces take over: 'Reduced to clear, One heart, only slightly broken, was £5,000, now £1,500', or 'Buy a liver, get a kidney free!'.
My point is a semi-serious one. I am utterly sick of hearing how much we as individuals and groups of people, cost the taxpayer (whch we all are, we all pay for these services). Why shouldn't we benefit from providing a commodity, an assett, that we have?
