[Rick Lee]

Why donate one for free? Because it's illegal in the US to get paid for it and donating one gets you to the top of the list if you need a transplant later on. I dated a girl who had donated a kidney to a friend. She said there was an exhaustuve investigation beforehand to make sure no money was changing hands. I think it's outrageous that it's illegal to sell your organs. Where the hell does the gov't get the power to ban that? It would solve a lot of shortages very quickly and fix some folks' financial problems too.