| Like it or not, Reality TV Shows seem to
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| | human kidney, although it's bound to have
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| be everywhere. Unless you are a TV
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| | happened before. A member of the British
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| pariah you will have no doubt experienced
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| | military was sent the smuggled kidney of
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| the joys of such shows as "Big Brother",
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| | an executed Chinese prisoner as a
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| "There's Something about Miriam",
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| | birthday prank. He did the only
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| "Lapdance Island" and "Space Cadets".
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| | reasonable thing: marinated it in a cream
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| The latest addition to this list of mind
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| | bechamel sauce with a tomato paste. By
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| boggling reality shows is BNN's "The Big
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| | all accounts it was delicious.
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| Donor Show" to be aired on Friday the 1st
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| | Use it as a dowry. If you simply can't
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| of June for Dutch viewers. The 80 minute
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| | get rid of a troublesome daughter then
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| show invites viewers to send in their
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| | your extra kidney could be your saviour.
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| advice and opinions to help a critically
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| | An increasingly common practice in south
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| ill woman choose the best possible
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| | and west India is to sell off a kidney in
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| recipient of her kidney from among 3
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| | order to pass on your daughter. According
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| contenders.
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| | to medical anthropologist Lawrence Cohen,
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| Though the show's concept has been
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| | parents can no longer complain about
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| ridiculed and declared unethical by many
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| | being unable to raise a dowry. "Haven't
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| political parties, kidney specialists and
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| | you got a spare kidney?"
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| donor authorities, BNN's chairman is
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| | Make kidney stones. A handy way to avoid
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| protecting the show and its concept,
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| | months of agonising post-op pain and a
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| saying: "The chance for a kidney for the
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| | lifetime of single kidney-dom is to keep
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| contestants is 33%. This is much higher
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| | your kidneys in their rightful place and
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| than that for people on a waiting list".
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| | turn your attentions to growing kidney
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| This is all in very poor taste, but this
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| | stones. All you have to do is pee them
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| being the least of our concerns, we've
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| | out and sell them on. One of William
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| come up with our top five things to do
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| | Shatner's stones recently sold for a
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| with your spare kidney. After all,
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| | mammoth $25,000. Nice work if you can get
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| everyone's got one.
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| | it.
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| Top five ways to use your extra kidney
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| | Transplant it. Probably the only legal
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| Sell it. The black market trade in
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| | method to get rid of an unwanted kidney
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| organs, especially kidneys, is
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| | is simply, give it to someone else.
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| burgeoning. Dodgy backstreet doctors
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| | Preferably someone who's going to use it
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| will relieve you of your spare organ for
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| | as a kidney and not as an ornamental
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| a tasty wad of cash, but be careful about
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| | paper weight.
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| where you go. It's much better to use the
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| | Just to make it clear before any of you
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| organ pirates of Brazil, where you could
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| | rush off to your local backstreet butcher
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| earn up to $10,000, than the bandits of
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| | to start making your organs pay please,
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| Baghdad who'll only offer a meagre
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| | please, please don't. Having a kidney
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| $1,400.
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| | removed will really hurt. A lot. And
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| Eat it. You're carrying around your very
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| | you'll spend the rest of your life in
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| own main course and you won't even put on
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| | fear that your one remaining kidney will
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| any weight by eating it. We can only find
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| | die of loneliness, leaving you right up
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| one reported instance of a man eating a
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| | the Loop of Henle.
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