Ending Organ Donor Shortages?

Posted by michael on Saturday July 26, 2003 @09:00AM from the death-penalty-for-jaywalking dept.

Tracy2112 writes "An interesting and recurring science fiction theme is the idea of black-market traffic in human body parts -- as Larry Niven termed it, "organlegging". According to this USA Today's Op-Ed piece on Yahoo, we're getting closer . . . including LifeSharers.com, , an organization working to sign up "preferred donors" who agree to preferentially donate to other LifeSharer members. Is this a great way to reward people for being generous with their unused body parts -- or a scary flashback to how early 'subscription-only' fire departments worked?"

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Make it a P2P Network! by fastdecade · 2003-07-26 10:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is a P2P idea, so why not combine this with a P2P network.

2000 MP3s per organ, hearts and private parts are gonna cost you Phantom Menace: Director's Cut six months before release.