[frittig]

I hear a lot about the prisoner organ harvesting in China, but something seems off. There are more that 1m prisoners in China. About 7,000 people on the organ donor list die each year. I would think that if the organ harvesting was as real as the news makes it seem, it would be common for people on the donor list to go to China and get the surgery. I am pretty confident that using the dark web and Bitcoin I could buy drugs, wives, weapons and other illegal products. Yet I can't see how to buy organs. My guess is because the organ harvesting is much less common than the news makes it appear.

(PS, just in case someone reads this wrong, I don't think it is good that China does any amount of forced organ harvesting.)

[bobthepanda]

I would imagine that people requiring pretty much urgent organ transplants, or those who are recovering from transplants, would not be fit to fly. If you need to spend an extended amount of time in a foreign country, that is probably quite hard to juggle with existing obligations like family and job.

[theonemind]

How common does the news make it seem? This doesn't seem to refute any specific figure.

[DeonPenny]

You have to be a genetic match. And people do go to china for organ transfer. It literally typically takes a week to find one based on reports which is why people became suspicious. They kept asking where the organ kept coming from.