Answer: Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.

According to TIMES, Stanford economists Stefanos Zenios and colleagues have demonstrated that the average value of a year of quality human life is about $129,000. It concludes that the grand total of material cost for a typical human body is a meager $160. The result: theoretically, your body worths up to $45million.

The results – phosphorus and calcium are the most valuable elements.

Cadaver: Rs 6,000. A full skeleton: Rs 10,000.

One human life is worth about US$10 million.

The cost for a Femto LASIK surgery is around $1500 (₹97,000), cataract surgery costs around $1500 (₹97,000), glaucoma surgery around $1600 (₹ 1,04,000), cataract with glaucoma around $2500 (₹1,63,000), squint treatment costs around $1200 (₹ 78,000), retinal detachment costs around $1500 (₹97,000), vitrectomy costs …

The average cost of a heart transplant can range anywhere between 20 – 25 lakhs.

• Intestine Transplant.
• Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant. Cost: $1,071,7002
• Single Lung Transplant. Cost: $929,6002
• Liver Transplant. Cost: $878,4002
• Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant. Cost: $471,6002
• Kidney Transplant. Cost: $442,5002
• Pancreas Transplant. Cost: $408,8002
• Cornea Transplant. Cost: $32,5002

Organ Donors – Heart Transplant & Organ Donation Donor hearts usually come from people who have injured their brain in an accident or who have had a major stroke. These patients are always on life-support machines in an intensive care unit and undergo a series of tests to see if their brain is still functioning.

If the whole heart cannot be transplanted, heart valves can still be donated.

Heart Transplants The heart is the hardest working muscle in our bodies, pumping blood throughout the body. And just like any muscle, it can be subject to fatigue, especially if it has been weakened by a number of cardiovascular diseases. A wide range of heart diseases may make transplantation necessary.

You cannot donate a heart while still alive. The donor needs it. Only a kidney or lung, or part of the liver can be a “living” donation, done while the donor is still alive. All others are after death.

What is the national waiting list? The waiting list is a computer database that contains medical information on every person who is waiting for any type of organ transplant in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. You will not have a number ranking for transplant based on all the other persons who are waiting for your organ.

Patients over 50 years of age experienced the longest median waiting times of patients registered on the kidney, kidney-pancreas, pancreas and heart waiting lists.

Kidneys

The liver is the only visceral organ to possess remarkable regenerative potential. In other words, the liver grows back. This regenerative potential is the reason why partial liver transplants are feasible. Once a portion or lobe of the liver is transplanted, it will regenerate.

No religion forbid this practice. Directed organ donation to people of the same religion has been proposed only by some Orthodox Jews and some Islamic Ulemas/Muftis. Only some Muslim Ulemas/Muftis and some Asian religions may prefer living donation over cadaveric donation.

Living organ donors can donate: one kidney, a lung, or a portion of the liver, pancreas, or intestine. Learn more about deceased donation, living donation, and the transplantation process.

Some studies indicate that braindead patients from whom organs are being harvested sometimes exhibit possible signs of pain such as increased blood pressure and heart rate. For this reason, many medical experts advocate for anesthetization of braindead patients from whom organs are being harvested.

Paying living kidney donors $10,000 to give up their organs would save money over the current system based solely on altruism — even if it only boosts donations by a conservative 5 percent.

There’s no cutoff age for being an organ donor. Anyone, regardless of age or medical history, can sign up. In fact, there are many people well up into their 80’s who donate. The decision to use your organs is based on health of the organ, not age.

Patients who are diabetics, those suffering from hypertension, asthma patients and those without communicable diseases can also donate eyes. Persons who were infected with or died from AIDS, Hepatitis B or C, rabies, septicemia, acute leukemia, tetanus, cholera, meningitis or encephalitis cannot donate eyes.

“Because I knew that could have been me.” Four living liver donors have died in the United States since 1999, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, including Arnold and another patient who died earlier this year at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts.