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When broken down into fluids, tissues and germ fighting our bodies are worth more than $45 million.

This price tag on the human body is based on a survey published in Wired magazine. It found that vital organs are no longer the most valuable body parts. Rather, bone marrow heads the list…priced at $23 million, based on 1,000 grams at $23,000 per gram.

DNA can fetch $9.7 million, while extracting antibodies can bring $7.3 million. A lung is worth $116,400, a kidney $91,400 and a heart $57,000.

Women's eggs are costlier than men's sperm. The survey found that a fertile woman could sell 32 egg cells over eight years for $224,000; however, for a man to earn the same amount, he would have to make 12 sperm donations a month for 20 years.

The prices are based on cost estimates taken from hospitals and insurance companies, and are based on projected prices only in the United States. Of course, the prices also assume that all these substances can be extracted from living tissue for sale.

Although this break down is illegal, unethical and also impossible, you should not feel like a million dollars any more. You can feel like $45 million, instead!

So it really depends on how you measure it and if it is allowed to be ethical or not.

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14y ago

Priceless!

Even if you are not the most beautiful or handsomest in the world you are still priceless. So you might want to say you are gorgeous all the time. ---- It's worth about US $4.50! The U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils broke it down to:

* 65% Oxygen * 18% Carbon * 10% Hydrogen * 3% Nitrogen * 1.5% Calcium * 1% Phosphorous * 0.35% Potassium * 0.25% Sulfur * 0.15% Sodium * 0.15% Chlorine * 0.05% Magnesium * 0.0004% Iron * 0.00004% Iodine

---- However, others say that the actual body organs are worth much more than that:

Bone marrow (1 kg @ $23,000 per gram): $23 million.

DNA: $9,700,000

Antibodies: $7,300,000

A lung: $116,400

A kidney: $91,400

A heart: $57,000

A woman could earn $224,000 selling 32 egg cells over eight years.

A man could earn the same selling sperm, one donation every three days, for 20 years.

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13y ago

around $4.50

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10y ago

more than $6 million

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4y ago

100,000 dollars lad

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