<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>--- On <B>Wed, 11/17/10, Micha Berger <I><micha@aishdas.org></I></B> wrote:<BR><BR>> A question is also (and this is more halachically significant) whether<BR>more lives are risked overall if one lets individual recipients to<BR>buy their way to the head of the line. That goes beyond the ethics of<BR>penalizing someone too much for their poverty.</DIV>
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<DIV>Another ethical/halakhic question. Let us say a billionaire needs a kidney to save his life. He's been given days to live withpout a transplant. No compatible donor has yet been found... and there are a few people in similar situations that are in line ahead of him to get one from UNOS should it become available. </DIV>
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<DIV>What are the ethics of this billionaire offering a million dollars to anyone with a compatible kindey to donate it directly to him? There are people who might not otehrwise be willing to donate a kidney that will now trip all over themselvs at a chance to 'sell' their 'spare' kidney for a million dollars.</DIV>
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