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http://www.forbes.com/sites/marciaclark/2013/06/13/selling-your-organs-should-it-be-legal-do-you-own-yourself/

Selling Your Organs: Should it be Legal? Do You Own Yourself?
By Marcia Clark and William Travis Clark

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"According to the government site organdonor.gov, “An average of 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can’t take place because of the shortage of donated organs.” And that number is on the rise. The graph on the government’s organ donor website shows we are falling further and further behind.

Is there anything we can do about it? Under the current system, probably not. But there are alternatives. Each has its own moral and legal issues."

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