What I mean is, what do people buy organs for? Transplants? Eating? Some other fucked up purpose I didn’t think of?

From what I know, buying human organs is a tad bit too expensive and risky to do just for shits and giggles.

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    7 months ago

    Rich people sometimes have bad organs and need transplants. They’re willing to pay a lot for a new one so they don’t have to wait in line with the plebs. Organ trafficking is how they achieve this.

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    There are more people needing organs then there are organs available for transplant. Which is why you will sometimes hear of a waiting list for transplants.

    If you have enough money instead of going on the pleb list you buy an organ from someone and you don’t ask how they got the organ.