{"id":656753,"date":"2010-02-06T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21682"},"modified":"2010-02-06T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:41:45","slug":"which-organs-can-i-live-without-and-how-much-cash-can-i-get-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656753","title":{"rendered":"Which Organs Can I Live Without, and How Much Cash Can I Get for Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/674px-Man_shadow_anatomy-300x266.png?resize=300%2C266\" alt=\"Man_shadow_anatomy\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21689\" \/>By Bjorn Carey for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-01\/which-organs-can-i-live-without-and-how-much-cash-can-i-get-them\">PopSci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, a disclaimer: Selling your organs is illegal in the United States. It\u2019s also very dangerous. Handing off an organ is risky enough when done in a top hospital, even more so if you\u2019re doing it for cash in a back alley. No, really: Don\u2019t do this. OK? OK.<\/p>\n<p>There are many organs one can theoretically do without, or for which there\u2019s a backup. Most folks can spare a kidney, a portion of their liver, a lung, some intestines, and an eyeball, and still live a long life. That said, donating a lung, a piece of liver or a section of intestines is a very complicated surgery, so it\u2019s not done frequently on the black market. And no one\u2019s going to make much cash on an eyeball.&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bjorn Carey for PopSci: First, a disclaimer: Selling your organs is illegal in the United States. It\u2019s also very dangerous. Handing off an organ is risky enough when done in a top hospital, even more so if you\u2019re doing it for cash in a back alley. No, really: Don\u2019t do this. OK? OK. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KQN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}