• GiveMemes@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    10 months ago

    Fun fact about “donating” blood, at least in the US, is that the blood donation companies turn around and sell it to the hospitals to make money lmaooo.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      10 months ago

      Same thing with being an organ donor. If you die in a car crash, they will take your heart and use it for a heart transplant. They will bill the recipient an average of $1.3 million dollers for the operation. Not only does your next of kin not get a cut, but they will bill your estate for the costs of their failed attempts to save your life.

      They bill $1.3 million for your heart and they won’t even comp the ambulance ride.

        • kase@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          10 months ago

          it’s illegal to profit from the sale of organs

          Apparently not for the people who are charging transplant recipients 1.3 million for a donated heart :/

        • paholg@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          10 months ago

          Is that really any different from life insurance, except with more potential to help poor people?