​ Red market- the trading of body organs and flesh!

Red market- the trading of body organs and flesh!

Why body parts market is an alruistic market and not a trade market?
1. It started as a trade market but then the human tendency was to look for the cheapest source. People started taking organs from prisoners which was termed as a form of slavery because prisoners had no other option to earn money.
2. It was hence defined as an altruistic market or voluntary donation only. Also, called as exchange of gifts or Blood socialism
3. So, if very few exceptions, all countries selling of blood, body organs is FREE.


Why anonymity is maintained between acceptor and donor?
1. So that the acceptor doesn’t feel indebted to him all his life.
2. To protect the interests of the donor.


Drawback of voluntary donation and anonymity-
1. In the whole supply chain, everybody earns money except for the donor.
2. As more organs become available, doctors keep adding the list of transplant.
3. Anonymity has led to total lack of transparency and black market for organs as tracing of body organs is hardly possible.
4. It has led to just trade of flesh which the middlemen use for their profits. They generally force, kidnap poor people to give up their organs as it cannot be traced back.
5. This has led to things like kidney stealing, bone thieves, human trafficking (or adoption and surrogacy), detrimental health during egg donation.
6. anonymity means people can buy flesh without worrying where it came for. It could be detrimental for both acceptor and donor.

CONCLUSION- The only solution to resolving the red market-
1. Make it transparent so that people can be traced back
2. This will lead to abolition of trade market where middlemen inflict all atrocities on humans to earn profits.

Middlemen open the door to dangerous abuses. The only way to get rid of them is to let the sun shine and expose the whole supply chain from beginning to end. Every blood packet should be traceable, every kidney should be affixed with a name, every surrogate womb find able and every adoption open.


No one will be killed for his kidneys if we are able to track them down, no children will be kidnapped if adoptions are open, no blood sellers will be locked in rooms to create infinitesimal blood supply.


Why this will never end-
1. As innovation keeos happening, doctors keep adding more disesases which could be rectified through organ transplant. Hence, the demand will only keep increasing.
2. As in the oil market, more innovations keep happening in terms of petroleum products and so. Similarly, in the body market.


Some facts

Bones/Skeleton trading-
1. Skulls taken out of graves to be made as flutes
2. Bone factories in WB
3. Bodies sold as anatomical skeletons to american medical schools
4. Bhutanese Buddhism says to understand mortality, we need to spend time contemplating the dead bodies. They use flutes carved out of tibia and femurs and prayer bowls out of crowns of skulls
5. The ligaments are scraped and implanted to some Olympian athlete.
6. Hair on head are used to make wigs.
7. A child skeleton can fetch much more money as it illustrates transitional stages in osteological development.


Kidney Trading-
1. There is a village in TN afflicted with Tsunami. One of their bread earning methods was loss of one kidney. It is termed as 'KidneyVakkam' village.
2. The situation is worse in China. The government harvests the organs of prisoners who are on a death row.
3. They even have a catalog on their website for sale of kidneys, liver , lungs , heart and cornea.
4. Child trafficking in the name of child adoption
5. Children are kidnapped from their houses to be sold in the foreign markets for child adoption,
6. Lighter color, better appearance and good lifestyle can fetch you better amount.


Egg donation
1. While the course of egg donation, girls are often injected with a hormone that causes hyperstimulation syndrome in which follicles become enlarges and produces tomany eggs.
2. In one case, an Israeli doctor took 181 eggs for a donor.


Surrogacy
1. Legalized in India in 2012 to promote medical tourism.
2. Indian women are preferred as they dont drink and smoke.
3. Charges are $15000-$20000 from in-vitro to delivery.
4. The women used as surrogates are made to live in a place where they are not allowed to go out. Television is their only source of entertainment.
5. However, there are no legal authority stating laws and ensuring the whole procedure is safe and legal.


Blood
1. People are taken captive for years and bled of blood. These are called as the blood factories.
2. The prisoners get too weak after the blood loss that they cannot even contemplate an escape.
3. The normal hemoglobin is around 14-18 grams for every 100 mls of blood. These prisoners usually have 4 gms.

Clinical trials
The poor bear the risk of testing drugs but only affluent receive the benefits of it.

Knowledge about body parts.


1. hemophiliac-body disorder where blood doesnt clot properly.


2. Ligaments- the tissue that connects the two nones or cartilages.


3. All muscles are tissues.


4. Cartilages are softer form of bones.


5. Brain aneurysm - A weakness in a blood vessel in the brain that balloons and fills with blood.


6. Regenerative medicine is a branch of translational research in tissue engineering and molecular biology which deals with the "process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function". Like stem cell production






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The best part about writing is how it connects strangers!

A response to any article is the best gift a writer can get on the day he wrote an article! We don’t even mind negative feedback; the feeling that somebody sat and heard our opinions is big enough! A positive feedback is icing on the cake.

Recently I wrote an article on one of the blog sites dealing with B-schools, their admission process , the life inside B-schools and placements of course! I wrote an article about my interview saga for the college I finally chose. I was so delighted to see a person who read the article and wanted to connect with me. We shared somewhat same kind of past experience and have somewhat same kind of aspirations from life in future!

It was heartwarming to connect with him. It is like motionless travelling where you meet so many people and exchange your thoughts!

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The feeling that you can connect with so many souls out there through your single piece of writing has made me keener to write more and share as much as I can. I am sure, somewhere in this world, in the population of 7 billion; at least one person will read and reply! And hence a relationship will start J  

When you fall for ‘not -your- dream-man’

Believe me, I am with a guy who is so opposite to my definition of my dream man! But I am very happy and very satisfied with my life right now! Why? I sat this morning and pondered upon how I am happy with the guy who is so different with what I want and is it sustainable in the long run?

I’ll tell you my observations and thoughts-

1.      We girls, at least I was, are inspired and ruled my Bollywood, movies, serials around us (the same way guys are inspired by porn when it comes to sex, I think). Our lives revolve around the imaginable Bollywood world- How we should look and what we should wear and how slim we should get, how to get attention and how much pampering you require from your dream man! I actually believed in the scenes where a girl will call her lover and he will rush to her arms!

My guy has made me think about this pampering and the practicality of it! It isn’t like he won’t do things for me, but he will do what is absolutely essential for me and what he feels like. It became imperative for me to come out of my dreamland. After all, what is love for me might not be love for him. I cannot push a person to express himself ‘My way’.

First lesson- Find love in the way he wants to love you. Don’t force your way of him. And we all know some things are important, just communicate!

2.      I was a person who used to get dependent on the other person a lot for my needs (and sometimes it could be big and sometimes it could be small). To make a small stupid IVR call for me, to spend all nights with me, to understand all my views. Well, is it really who we would call ‘independent’ woman. It became essential for me to have an individual life and stop asking my guy for every other thing or support and the relationship pushed me a lot for this. Because it was practical and mature thing to do as well. Because we all need that space to let go of everything else and just be the way we want.

Second lesson- It is very important to find YOUR OWN life. I call it as Shagun’s FOUR square theory.

These are four integral parts of your life and it is very important to take care for everything separately. Take care of needs of your mother, but don’t forget about your ambitions and dreams also. Take care about your spouse but don’t forget your little me times.

3.      Last is one of the most important lessons I learnt. I was so used to get things my way and to be pampered the way I want, that I absolutely forgot to reciprocate. This guy asked me to do things and now everything works mutually and in tandem between us. We all know that youth/adults is not an age of unconditional love. You give and you take. And you need to understand what the other person wants.

Third lesson- Take some time out and ponder upon things that he want. Not just keep cribbing about the how much work we have to do both in office and house. After all, even a male sacrifices a lot of things to make a relationship fruitful. Understand what he does and what he wants in return. It is absolutely necessary to give!

I always tell my guy how much stability he brings in my life. He has taken me out of the unending romanticism and pampering I had been living with and expecting the same always. I am not quoting that pampering is bad, but one way and rigid pampering is bad. We all need to find love in small things that the other person does for us. And don’t forget to do those small things for him too. Be confident about yourself and be happy with what you are! After all, confidence is sexier than a bikini!

May be this ‘dream man’ thing is all a farce! You just need common sense after all in love too!