Today's Sun splashes on a macabre story about the growing trade in human body parts, with an investigation into a website where people from around the world offer their organs for sale.
It focuses on a waiter from Manchester who signed a contract to sell one of the paper's reporters one of his kidneys, part of his liver and one of his corneas for £90,000 - and said he knew a doctor in Pakistan willing to carry out the surgery.
The sale and purchase of live human tissue is illegal in the UK and US. But the campaign group Organs Watch has identified many countries where the trade flourishes. Every year patients from rich nations, including the US and Japan, buy thousands of organs taken - often unscrupulously - from live donors in developing countries, such as Mexico and Pakistan.
Just days ago, the leader of a political party in Pakistan - an organs trading hotspot - called on the country's president to outlaw the practice. India Daily reports that the village of Yazman, in Bahawalpur district, is notoriously popular for kidney sales, with none of its young men believed to have two kidneys. Also this month, Indian police investigating a spate of child murders warned that the killings could be linked to the trade, which has been outlawed in the country.
With no end in sight to the illegal trade and authorities worldwide seemingly unable to prevent its growth, is it time to consider setting up a legal market in human body parts? Last year, two US doctors suggested this was both the solution to the shortage of organ donors in the west and the best means of protecting the poor and desperate in developing countries from being mutilated or killed by back-street operations.
Perhaps a regulated market in live organ donors could also prevent the scandal of human tissue being harvested from corpses - a practice highlighted by the theft of the veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke's bones. And one could argue that, as it's your body, you should have the right to sell it if you wish.
According to the Sun, there are many people in the UK and US offering their body parts for sale online. Would you ever consider joining them? And what would you put on the market?
