[Avodah] Is there any issur here al pi halacha? - New York man pleads guilty to selling Israeli human organs

[Joseph C. Kaplan]

"The main down side I can see under these assumed circumstances is whether one is permitted to risk one?s life to save another (one might consider the imminence of the risk to life and in fact if there is any at all in some cases) which is an issue well elaborated upon in the halachic literature."

Isn't there another downside (assuming full consent, no coercion etc. which is an assumption that very well might not be justified); i.e., that rich people whose condition is not as serious as that of poor people will live and the poor people will die?  Take this example: doctors say rich person should live at least three more years with dialysis; poor person will die within a month.  Is it just/moral/halachically permissible (three possibly differing/conflicting standards) for the rich person to get the transplant and the poor person to die, when, if the poor person got the transplant, both of them might have lived (albeit the rich person having to undergo additional dialysis)?

Joseph Kaplan   
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