How Much are Your Body Parts Worth on the Black Market?

Posted by Abby Crawford on

I hope you don't think I'm creepy for posting this...but I found it terribly interesting....the Black Market is just so weird to me!

 

A website compiled info from FBI and other government reports on how much different body parts have sold for on the black market.  And the going rate for a kidney in the U.S. is $262,000.  Here's more on what your body is worth . . .

 

 

--Kidney, $262,000 in the U.S., $62,000 in China, $15,000 in India.

 

--Liver, $157,000.

 

--Heart, $119,000.

 

--Small intestine, $2,519.

 

--Pair of eyeballs, $1,525.

 

--Coronary artery, $1,525.

 

--Gallbladder, $1,219.

 

--Skull with teeth, $1,200.

 

--Scalp, $607.

 

--Spleen, $508.

 

--Stomach, $508.

 

--Hand and forearm, $385.

 

--Pint of blood, $337 in the U.S., just $25 in India.

 

--Skin, $10 per square inch.

 

 

--That means, when you die, your body could be harvested for $810,381, not counting your blood or skin, which varies by size.  But your skin could get you another $30,000 or so, and your blood could add on around $3,370.

 

 

--And here's WHY there's a black market.  In the U.S., there are about 113,100 people currently waiting for an organ transplant . . . and there were 14,144 organs donated in 2011.  Eighteen people die every day waiting for a transplant.

 

 

--We don't exactly know how you'd go about selling your organs on the black market . . . and even though the money's good, we wouldn't recommend finding out.  It's an ENORMOUS RISK in so many ways.

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