As a child, during the festive periods, my parents would go on and on warning us to be careful and mindful of our surroundings. They would warn us against speaking to strangers, or even offering help to strangers, because during these time, a lot of dark evil things happen to people, even the kind ones.
Children, and even the elderly often get kidnapped, and many of them lose their organs in the process.
I can still vividly remember an incident that occurred back when I was still a kid. One of the boys in the street got missing, and some weeks after, his body turned up close to their house, almost unrecognizable, with his organs gone. That was a very traumatizing sight for me. A big hole was on his chest, and sides, where his heart and kidneys were brutally harvested from. I can recall that his mother fainted after seeing him, and she spent days at the hospital. I don't think the family ever recovered from the trauma. But that is the world we live in. One wrong blink, and someone goes missing, and his organs are gone like they were never his.
But then, it is crazy how people still give up their selves to danger by choosing to sell their organs in the black market. And they do this knowing fully that they might lose their lives in the process, over money that they may likely not use if they died.
Organ marketing is a trade that has been going on on the dark web for many years than anyone can remember, and despite how dangerous it is, everyday, thousands of organs are still being sold by people.
If we were to scratch the organs that were forcibly removed, you'd find out that thousands of people consented to having their organs harvested, all for money.
Sometimes when the going gets rough, we often make jokes about wanting to sell our kidneys for money, but if someone were to offer me billions to sell my kidney, I wouldn't just refuse, there's every possibility that I would drag that person to the authorities. Organ trading shouldn't even be an option when one is in a bad place.
This evil has become so rampant these days that people even lose their organs without consenting to it. In our world today, the human trafficking network thrives with no end in sight.
Now to the main question, "should a person be allowed to sell their organs because it is their body, and therefore their rights?" Well, my simple answer to that is NO. There's no right in the constitution that states that a person can sell off their organs, so it doesn't matter if the body is yours or not, it is so wrong.
There's a big difference between when a person decides to donate maybe a kidney to save another person's life, and when a person gives away his kidney in exchange for money. No jokes though, but the price of selling a kidney in the black market can be mouth watering, but that doesn't mean that we should indulge in it.
The dangers surrounding this trade is so bad, and scary. There could be complications as it is not often done in a favorable and government approved locations. One can develop severe infections, long-term organ failures, and even death. And if a person should die from selling his kidney, of what use is the money then?
So in conclusion, I do not think that anyone should sell his or her kidney because it is their body and their right. There are other better ways to make money, than to sell our source of life. What happens when you sell and maybe within a year or two, the other organ gets infected? How would the person survive? What would you do with all that money?
I used to argue with a friend over this, and she would say if she sold her kidney, she would use the payment to take good care of the other kidney. But we all know that it is easier said than done.
Making donations isn't wrong, but we should never let the thought of selling off our organs, cross our minds because we are in a tight spot.
Organ marketing is an evil, dark, and devilish kind of trade, that no one should indulge in.
