Facing grinding poverty, some Europeans are seeking to sell their kidneys, lungs, bone marrow or corneas, experts say.
Max Keiser
Financial War Reports
Facing grinding poverty, some Europeans are seeking to sell their kidneys, lungs, bone marrow or corneas, experts say.
bone marrow???????????
@Susan, It’s great on toast…
Leukemia, blood cancer.
It was insufferable enough that this banking ponzi extracts your wealth and transfers it to the 1%…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454970/
Can I ask a stupid question, as in, how can someone sell their own lungs and survive, or is it the obvious answer?
Hey wow! Just realised theres someone comes on this website occasionally who was actually in that movie link I posted-small world eh. Maybe you guys had sussed that out already lol-if not, I’ll give you a blatant clue, shes a nice looking woman
WTF! We have to to pay? How dare the poor ask for money for something they own. Make a law to force them to volunteer it for free! Next time someone takes you blood, ask them if they are working for free too. ;D
It is heartbreaking when people put their own lives at risk in order to survive. What happens if you donated your kidney, and later the child that you “saved” from poverty needs your kidney to live? Sounds like a good plot for a movie…
Maybe I should sell this to Hollywood or Bollywood – or Chollywood in Beijing?
I’m finding it real hard to feel sorry for Pavle Mircov. Looks like he hasn’t given up smokes to survive.
Article was published in June anyway. He’s probably living the high life now with his sold organ.
@Bruce | November 12, 2012 at 9:46 am
Maybe that is because you are cold hearted. The average monthly salary in that region is 375 euro. Try to live of that. People smoke because it is a anti-depressant and cheaper than food. I know people there who live on cigarettes and cofee and a small meal because it is cheaper than 3 meals a day. If you can’t have any sympathy for someone who is so poor that he needs to sell an organ in order to put his kids to school perhaps you should find a job on Wallstreet. I am sure you would qualify.
I notice my local blood bank is advertising for more volunteers (“especially in the 17-24 age group”). Why is the blood of young people more desirable you might wonder? It’s because it contains stuff that repairs damage and makes you live longer! The vampire tales of drinking virgin blood do have a pinch of truth to them but they don’t drink the blood they replace the old blood with young blood through a transfusion!
Joe A,
Smoking is an anti-depressant? News to me. I know if I were paying The Man for my smokes, I’d be very depressed and actually look to providing real food and drink for my family.
Telephone disconnected. Salami and bread are the ‘extravagances’, yet the smokes are always around.
Call my cold-hearted (I accept it with open arms) but there is no way I’d be interested in calling the media up to relay my sob story while I am still buying smokes and talking about how hard it is to survive and provide for my kids.
ps. what makes this all the more hilarious (at least to me) is he used to work for a meat-packing business.
How disconnected people become to their environment (and the animals around them). But then quickly complain when something like this affects them personally and they find they have to sell their organs when they lose the ability to sell an animal’s.
(yes, I know…I’m sick that way)
Call the media; I lost my job. Don’t take my smokes away.
Bruce | November 12, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Who says he called the media? Maybe the media found him, saw his email looking for an organ buyer.
Many people smoke because it calms them down. That is of course also because they are addicted. But when people are nervous, they smoke. Also among others things, smoking reduces appetite. In that part of the world -as in many others- cigarettes are not taxed as highly as in Western Europe or the USA. In fact, you can buy a pack of cigarette under 1 euro of probably very bad quality -if there is something like that. So if you smoke a pack a day -which many people do- that would cost you 30 euro but it might save you 100 euro in food. Food prices are pretty high there.
In Macedonia you can buy a plastic bag full of local grown tobacco for 5 euro. That tobacco contains so much nicotine, it will keep you awake all night.
And regarding disregard for environment: yes, there is a lot of that. But if you have no choice, if there are not enough jobs and the only jobs that are there are crappy, dangerous and low paying ones but if it is either that or no job then people really stop caring. Especially if you have been living in a shitty situation for over 20 years then you really stop caring. Don’t worry, that will come to the ‘first world’ soon.
I come quite often in that region and I honestly don’t know how some people manage to survive of 375 Euro. Some even make as little as 200 euro (but there are also people who make a reasonable salary of 1000-1500 euro, and then there are of course the crooks and the policitians). Some people are so desperate they kill themselves and their families, every once in a while you would hear stories like that.
I don’t understand how someone can not have sympathy for people who under these conditions do the best they can even if they have ciggies for comfort.
Joe A,
I see where you’re coming from. Thanks for giving more context.
Bruce | November 13, 2012 at 2:32 am
Thanks for understanding the context.