MONEY MORAL DILEMMA: Should Britney sell her blood?

baffaroony

Yes i think she should! it's not uncommon in many countries to sell your blood.
I uesd to work in Saudi Arabia and it was commonplace to sell blood in fact many of my friends would rely on it as a good source of income!!
£100 for a pint and £300 for white bloodcells!
I don't know whether it's true but i was once told that the excess blood donated in U/K is sold on to other countries/ private care etc...please correct me if i'm wrong!
So at the end of the day it would certainly solve the blood shortage issue if people were paid for their renewable resource and i'm sure the government will tax them for the privilage!!
Happy new year

sloucho

If she is that desperate for 100 quid (for approx. 16 weeks of blood) and intends to work 3 jobs she needs to re-access her lifestyle and commitments more than anything.
If you can’t keep you head above water you are doing something very wrong.
I give blood because I can and it is the right thing to do. Human life does not have a price.
Those mercenaries who think people should get paid and pay for blood have obviously been “moneysaving” to long, not everything in life should be about money. Obviously these people didn’t watch Scrooge over the holidays and would be happy to sell the grandmothers for some easy readies

cupid_s

I'd get paid the £100 for giving blood. Then find two mates who didn't give blood already and tell them I'd give them a fiver each if they did. I'm £90 up and everyone's happy.

smkt

Yes, she should. I work for a medical diagnostics company and donate 10 tubes of blood 2 times a month. Each time being paid £20.
I do it to help with research, without our blood the advances in medical science would not be possible. The end result being the patient getting a better more advanced device.

Of course the payment is an incentive also, but it pays for a few luxurys in life.

So Yes Britany should sell her blood. As long as she makes sure the place where she is donating is known and is clinicaly and Hygenicly clean.

Woodyrocks

This is a no-brainer IMHO - the act of giving blood is a charitable act, we can only be charitable when in a position to do so, should and when her situation improves, she can return to her prior status of charitable giving.

Get paid first and foremost!

n.b I have only read Martin's email before popping in here so if I have missed any crucial points, I feel free to revise my OP lol

boxercrazy

Just to reply to a few of the comments, I do work for the blood service, now called NHSBT, yes we are part of the NHS, well thats where my pension will come from. National Health Service, Blood and Transplant. Yes Blood mostly is seperated, but we dont use the plasma these days, there are a lot of artificial products that can be used instead. If people were paid to give blood, are they guaranteed to be truthful about their health and lifestyle?? Just so they can get their money?? And then what about the recipient, who is probably very ill to start with?? If it were just for research, different. The body holds 8-10 pints of blood, irrelevant of sex, but dependant on size. Im pretty sure we dont have an excess of blood in this country, hence the ads on tv and radio to try to bring in more donors, we only have about 4 days supply. It will tell you on the web site at any given time if you want to know, thanks just had to have my say!!

lynneinjapan

baffaroony wrote: »

I don't know whether it's true but i was once told that the excess blood donated in U/K is sold on to other countries/ private care etc...please correct me if i'm wrong!

In the most recent Donor magazine (from the NBS or whatever it's called now) there was a bit about blood going overseas - I forget the details but I think the gist of it was that as a rule, all the blood donated stays in this country, except occasionally where rare medical conditions mean that suitable blood products just can't be sourced locally.

Regarding the original dilemma, I agree with the sentiment that Britney can't afford to be giving stuff (in this case blood) away when she could be getting paid for it, so I don't see anything wrong with getting the payment, subject to it being done safely of course.

gettinbetter_2

[Whilst working in Saudi had a blood tst as part of driving license application and to my surprise found that I had donated an armful of blood and was never told a thing!! They liked it apparently! next time the police came for me in the middle of the night as they wanted more, and prodded me with a submachine gun when I invited them to go away, we wrestled a bit over the gun, was arrested and taken to the hospital in handcuffs. Then left to find my own way home!!
On another occasion when working in Africa donated blood in a mission hospital (American) on several occasions and then found that they charged the patient, (South African white) more than £100 a pint and that was a long time ago!!
If you have rare blood best to keep your mouth shut believe me!

mashmash_2

Assuming she would have given blood either way, then this question boils down to "Britney has £100; should she give it away or keep it for herself".

The answer to that depends on her personal charitable tendencies and her current financial situation, but as she is struggling financially and looking for a third(!) job, then I'd say she shouldn't give the money away.

i.e., Take the £100

MothballsWallet

I don't think I could donate to the NBS - because I've spent a year in NZ (their blood service won't accept you as a donor if you've been out of the country for a set period or weren't born there).