organs trading

Indonesian sulaiman got sentenced 2 weeks + S$1000 fine (or 1week jail) for failed attempt to sell his kidney to 55 yr old prominent listed company chairman, and Toni sentenced 14weeks +S$2000 fine (or 2 weeks jail) for being a runner having himself already sold his kidney to another rich Indonesian...sulaiman collected 186m rupiahs (like S$20k+) which is about 16 years working as a labourer, the job he lost 6 months ago...

guess S'pore court is quite measured in not taking away too much of Toni's "blood money (or kidney money)" but still having to send strong message that organs trading is "illegal" to deter runners & sellers...but what about the named middleman who actively sourced out both these punished sellers and coached them to fabricate the family tree and stories to get the Transplant Ethics Committee to approve...what about the rich buyer and "attempted" buyer...will the same law be seen to apply to them?

for the long lists of arguments against organs trading, some doctors & care-givers truly believe that it is greater wrong to see a human being dies when there is an organ available, and the seller (like Toni) can in fact have a chance for a better life for himself and his loved ones through the only means he will ever have. by the same argument that the poor should not be exploited, the poor should also not be assumed to be incapable of making the right decision for themselves when all the facts are presented to them instead of others making that decision for them...

the problem may be more a practical one...then we need to find a practial solution...say set up a charity trust where rich or filthy rich recepients will donate (NOT pay to buy) $x, and living donors (NOT sellers) will get extended periods of annual payments from the charity trust (instead of likes of Toni wittling away his 186m rupiahs though i guess we are still deciding for him here)...and poor recepients can still get donors..courtesy of extra donations from the rich ones...

this way (1)there is no trading (2)do away with middlemen-any trading will need middlemen to be efficient, but a charity trust can advertise publicly via Internet (3)poor recipients can get organs (4)better help the poor donors through a extended period of support...