How and why Virginia Postrel gave her kidney

by on May 20, 2006 at 10:36 pm in Education | Permalink

Worth reading.

4 comments

Juliette May 21, 2006 at 8:50 am

Thank you for linking to this story, I found it extremely interesting, knowing someone who might need a kidney transplant someday.

scott cunningham May 21, 2006 at 4:26 pm

Very inspiring story. I was astonished, too, when I read her brother ran 31 miles to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, then back up again. I now feel officially lazy.

srp May 22, 2006 at 3:36 pm

Even if all 20,000 transplantable cadaver kidneys were harvested, the waiting list for transplants would still be huge. Live donors are essential.

When we are serious about something in this country, we spend money on it. The only near-term solution that has a hope of alleviating the current shortage is to pay live donors for their spare kidneys. This can be done directly or through income tax credits (for those who don’t want the poor to benefit from the option of being paid for their organs); the funding specifics are less important at this point than the principle. The current shortage of organs is caused primarily by people’s misguided (and emotional) rejection of this principle. Marketophobia kills.

linda October 9, 2006 at 5:50 am

Hello all really cool blog
alprazolam fioricet hydrocodone vicodin tramadol xanax valium ultram soma carisoprodol ambien ativan lorazepam propecia adipex didrex cialis levitra paxil meridia viagra wellbutrin clonazepam xenical prozac butalbital phentermine
buy ativan buy adipex buy didrex buy levitra buy cialis buy phentermine buy soma buy tramadol buy diazepam buy carisoprodol buy meridia buy paxil buy valium buy xanax buy ultram buy fioricet tooth whitening online pharmacy alprazolam car insurance payday loan web directory business directory carisoprodol hydrocodone buy vicodin

Comments on this entry are closed.

Previous post:

Next post: