There should be a free market in organs. That’s blunt, isn’t it? All across the nation people are tearing their out hair trying to figure out what to do with our organ supply. Should we supply organs on a strict first-come, first-served basis? Should emergency transplant cases move to the head of the line? Should we refuse transplanted organs to people who—like Mickey Mantle and Larry Hagman—have organ-abusive lifestyles? Should famous …showed first 75 words of 1226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1226 total…and legacies for their children. And if we refuse, we won’t stop the dying. We may even cause deaths that might have been prevented in a free market. What we will do, without doubt, is assure that organs will be distributed by means that are arbitrary, capricious, senseless and corrupt. We can choose the slain. Or we can get out of the way and let people find newer and better ways to stay alive.