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What is your body worth??─── 08:10 Tue, 03 Sep 2013
When broken down into fluids, tissues and germ fighting our bodies are worth more than R450 million.
This price tag on the human body is based on a survey published in Wired magazine. It found that vital organs are no longer the most valuable body parts. Rather, bone marrow heads the list…priced at R230 million, based on 1,000 grams at R230,000 per gram.
DNA can fetch R97 million, while extracting antibodies can bring R73 million. A lung is worth R116million, a kidney R910,400 and a heart R570,000.
Women's eggs are costlier than men's sperm. The survey found that a fertile woman could sell 32 egg cells over eight years for R2,2 million; however, for a man to earn the same amount, he would have to make 12 sperm donations a month for 20 years.
The prices are based on cost estimates taken from hospitals and insurance companies, and are based on projected prices only in the United States. Of course, the prices also assume that all these substances can be extracted from living tissue for sale.
Although this break down is illegal, unethical and also impossible, you should not feel like a million dollars any more. You can feel like R450 million, instead!
This price tag on the human body is based on a survey published in Wired magazine. It found that vital organs are no longer the most valuable body parts. Rather, bone marrow heads the list…priced at R230 million, based on 1,000 grams at R230,000 per gram.
DNA can fetch R97 million, while extracting antibodies can bring R73 million. A lung is worth R116million, a kidney R910,400 and a heart R570,000.
Women's eggs are costlier than men's sperm. The survey found that a fertile woman could sell 32 egg cells over eight years for R2,2 million; however, for a man to earn the same amount, he would have to make 12 sperm donations a month for 20 years.
The prices are based on cost estimates taken from hospitals and insurance companies, and are based on projected prices only in the United States. Of course, the prices also assume that all these substances can be extracted from living tissue for sale.
Although this break down is illegal, unethical and also impossible, you should not feel like a million dollars any more. You can feel like R450 million, instead!
