A Beaconsfield man is trying to sell his kidney online for $100,000, reasoning that he can save a life while trying to provide for his children down the line.
Martin Rosenstein said he's made some wrong life choices and doesn't have a lot to offer his children so he wants to make sure they're taken care of after he's gone and if he can also save a life, so be it.
Rosenstein said he tried going through hospitals but that he was being "given the runaround" in a sea of bureaucracy so he put up an ad on a couple of online sites saying, 'This is a serious ad, I am not joking. There has to be someone out there in need of a healthy kidney."
He hasn't gotten any offers yet to his online ads, some of which have been taken down.
Selling and buying human organs is illegal in Canada.
Rosenstein doesn't agree with that.
"Whatever is in your body belongs to you, ergo you have the right to do with it what you please," said Rosenstein in an interview with CJAD 800.
"I feel that it's my right since they belong to me, I can sell them on the open market to whoever needs them."
Paul St- Germain, spokesman for the Kidney Foundation of Canada says not only is it illegal,
"They should be very well aware that they could be putting themselves and their well-being at risk by doing so."
"Some of (the risks) would include ensuring the compatibility and the matching of the donor organ and the recipient," said St-Germain.
There are nearly 800 Quebecers waiting for an organ transplant, most of them for a kidney.