Why doesn't he simply offer money? If I needed to survive, I'd offer something like all my savings, plus 50% of my net salary for 10 years.
Organized crime just squealed with happiness. Abduct someone -> sedate and extract bone marrow -> PROFIT
Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.
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#22I really do wish this reminder had came sooner; I have the swab kit sitting on my desk, waiting for a free moment for me to swab and send. While I'm obviously still going to send it in, I was really hoping to help Amit. :(
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#23Can someone explain what the November 30 date means? Is there another treatment route they will try if they can't find a donor? How is the cut-off date chosen?
I think it has something to do with the data not showing up in the registry for 30 days and maybe the new year coming.
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#24I am a south asian male living in the US.I tried to sign up as a donor.Here is my experience. >Your password needs to be between 8 and 15 characters long, must contain at least 1 number and 1 letter and cannot contain spaces. Seriously WTF....I am sure half of the people who wanted to sign up did not just for this bs! Okay chill...password abcd...... > In the past 5 years have you taken money or drugs in exchange for…
- Much of the reason for the secondary contact information is to ensure that if you are a match they have multiple ways to find you.
- You may be a match for someone ten years down the line. Odds are that you won't be in exactly the same place with the exact same contact information.
- It costs about $100 to do the analysis on each test. Therefore, if you provide additional information that may in some ways be redundant, it will aid in screening for likely matches.
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#25The risk to the donor is quite low. It requires general anestesia, and so a night in the hospital. But serious complications have a probability of 1:20000 (wikipedia German). The english article gives some more differentiated figures.
The spine is not invaded, the "marrow" means technically stem cells extracted from blood, in most cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_Transplantation#Risks_to...
I'm not a doctor.
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#26Why doesn't he simply offer money? If I needed to survive, I'd offer something like all my savings, plus 50% of my net salary for 10 years.
Organized crime just squealed with happiness. Abduct someone -> sedate and extract bone marrow -> PROFIT
But Amit could pay some criminal organization for that service right now; the abduction itself is illegal either way.
Allowing for cash incentives would serve to reduce the quantity of unfulfilled demand from which black markets -- and the criminal organizations which supply them -- emerge.
At the very least, such incentives would mean far more people listed in donor registries, the dearth of which is the very problem Amit is running into.
http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/11/the-case-for-legal-org...
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#27I feel absolutely helpless. I hate this situation. I don't know anyone who qualifies, and I certainly don't. The idea that Amit may not find a donor furiously irritates me. What's worse, none of my Facebook and Twitter followers have relayed the message further the several times I've posted about it.
Then there's the swab kit sign up form. Oh my, what a pain. And then the guilt sets in where I begin to think 'Why am I ignoring the thousands of other people that likely need bone marrow too?'
I can't be alone in this thinking. But what can I do next? I certainly can't sit idle and watch this guy die.
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#28I'm American, but I'd happily do one of these kits and also go through with the operation if it would save Amit's life... ...but I see no way to actually do that. Does anyone else? Where are the kits?
Get started with the quick questionnaire at http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx and they'll mail the kit to you within a few weeks.
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#29I'm American, but I'd happily do one of these kits and also go through with the operation if it would save Amit's life... ...but I see no way to actually do that. Does anyone else? Where are the kits?
Get started with the quick questionnaire at http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx and they'll mail the kit to you within a few weeks.
Seems a little late for that, unfortunately.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that is illegal. In the US, there is the National Organ Transplant Act which forbids paying for organs. In this law, bone marrow is considered an organ. > It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce. > [...] > The term ''human organ'' means the hu…
Better be in jail but alive (with free health care btw.) then dead. You could do the procedure overseas.
The contract wouldn't be enforceable.