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Anonymous raged 7 months ago —— Where I live, there's a few plasma "donation" centers. The donors get compensated. As far as I'm concerned, that's not. fucking. donating. The proper term is Selling, not donating.That's like getting arrested for prostitution, and saying "I wasn't selling it, I was Donating it to the needy. No. It'S. Selling.

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Anonymous 7 months ago

You're fucking bananas mate.

Anonymous 7 months ago

They probably don't give you that much,and besides how many people are willing to have that done without a little financial nudge? Come on man its only a good thing.

Anonymous 7 months ago

They give $60 every time you donate! -OP

Anonymous 7 months ago

Blood donations should be done willingly, they should be just that, donations. Money shouldn't change hands because in effect it's like selling body parts and organs. Donate willingly for free or not at all.

Anonymous 7 months ago

If people told you to donate willingly or not donate at all, very few people would make donations. Humans are naturally self-centered and greedy. It's fucking nature.

Anonymous 7 months ago

Some countries only have blood DONORS, there is no payment for blood donated.

Anonymous 7 months ago

fuck off thats bullshit

Anonymous 7 months ago

Wtf is your problem. People who need the blood get it, the centers won't get away with passing on "bad" sick/drugged blood, the contributors get reimbursed. Don't be a douchebag

Anonymous 7 months ago

No they do not get reimbursed in all countries. People donate freely and all donated blood is screened as per the usual requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation

The World Health Organization set a goal in 1997 for all blood donations to come from unpaid volunteer donors, but as of 2006, only 49 of 124 countries surveyed had established this as a standard.[12] Some Plasmapheresis donors in the United States are still paid for donations.[86] A few countries rely on paid donors to maintain an adequate supply.[87] Some countries, such as Tanzania, have made great strides in moving towards this standard, with 20 percent of donors in 2005 being unpaid volunteers and 80 percent in 2007, but 68 of 124 countries surveyed by WHO had made little or no progress.[5] In some countries, for example Brazil, Argentina or Australia.[88] , it is illegal to receive any compensation, monetary or otherwise, for the donation of blood or other human tissues.[89]. In patients prone to iron overload, blood donation prevents the accumulation of toxic quantities.[90] Donating blood may reduce the risk of heart disease for men, but the link has not been firmly established and may be from selection bias because donors are screened for health problems.[91][92]

Regular donors are often given some sort of non-monetary recognition. In Italy, blood donors receive the donation day as a paid holiday from work.[93] Other incentives are sometimes added by employers, usually time off for the purposes of donating.[94] Blood centers will also sometimes add incentives such as assurances that donors would have priority during shortages, free T-shirts or other small trinkets (e.g., first aid kits, windshield scrapers, pens, etc.), or other programs such as prize drawings for donors and rewards for organizers of successful drives.[95] In Singapore, the Singapore Red Cross Society presents awards for voluntary donors who have made a certain number of donations under the Blood Donor Recruitment Programe: a "bronze award" for 25 donations, "silver award" for 50 donations, and so on.[96]

Most allogeneic blood donors donate as an act of charity and do not expect to receive any direct benefit from the donation.[97] The sociologist Richard Titmuss, in his 1970 book The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy, compared the merits of the commercial and non-commercial blood donation systems of the USA and the UK. The book became a bestseller in the USA, resulting in legislation to regulate the private market in blood.[98] The book is still referenced in modern debates about turning blood into a commodity.[99] The book was republished in 1997 and the same ideas and principles are applied to analogous donation programs, such as organ donation and sperm donation.

Anonymous 7 months ago

I didn't say ALL places gave money, but both places where I live do.

Anonymous 7 months ago

not if yuh get payed 4 it

Anonymous 7 months ago

Donating blood is good for the soul and the body.

Anonymous 6 months ago

what does it matter how they get it? Its going to a good cause.

Anonymous 6 months ago

When I was a kid there were ads in the newspaper that read "Blood Doners Needed - Highest Rates Paid", followed by the location, hours, rates, etc.

One time, out of curiosity (and because I thought I might be able to use the $25.00 bucks they were offering) I went to one of these places to check it out. There was a line-up of derelicts, drunks, junkies, prostitutes, etc.

I stook in shock. My first thought was that I had inadvertently stumbled into a small police station and that all these people were being charged with something. My second thought, after glimpsing a woman in a nurse's uniform actually taking the blood from these people, was "OH MY GOD, they are going to take blood from these people and use it for the sick!"

Obviously, this was many years ago. Even though we did not have the big AIDS and Herpes situation we have today, there was still TB, Hepatitis, and a whole shitload of other diseases transmittlable by blood transfusion. And that is not to mention the kind of junk and booze that some of these people were on. Shit I for one would not like to have swimming in my viens.

So I left that place and made three firm resolutions as follows:

1. To avoid having an accident that might leave me in need of blood.

2. To make it a point to donate my disease-free blood whenever possible.

3. To make enough money so I would never be "next" in the paid doner line.

I can no longer donate blood due to having contracted malaria years ago. But that does not stop the IRS from sucking the life blood out of my wallet. Now that's a new thought on this subject - UNWILLING BLOOD DRAWING!!!

decay 6 months ago

I used to "donate" plasma years ago when I has a shifty nearly homeless vagabond back in my youth. I was able to stay drunk and pay my rent on the $250 a month I would raise by donating 10 times a month ($25 per "donation" plus some extra if you got in some extra allowed donations that month).

I think they try to use the term "donation" because people would be pissed off if they found out they were "paid" $25.00 for something the plasma center sells for $1000+. But by saying you are "donating" and they are giving you $25.00 for your time it makes it sound like your not being exploited.

Luckly most of the people who are donating don't give two shits about it as long as they get their quick cash for their quick fix. Plus you get drunk in like 5 minutes if you drink within a few hours of donating. So you save cash on booze!

sonjai 4 months ago

Have you ever donated plasma•?it hurts like fucking hell. It's donating believe me, you can't. Ompare that to prostitution asshole.

Oh wait that's marrow that hurts like fucking hell sorry but still.

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