---
title: "How Much Is Your Body Worth? (infograph)"
description: "Unfortunately, most of us are worth more dead than alive. At least, you probably are if you are a recent college grad.  It may sound crazy, and more than a little morbid, but there is an active market (mostly an illegal, black market), for human body parts. With over 113,000 people on waiting lists for..."
date: "2015-01-28"
modified: "2015-01-28"
authors:
  - name: "Jolene Creighton"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jolene-creighton"
url: "https://futurism.com/much-body-worth-infograph"
categories:
  - "From Quarks to Quasars"
---

# How Much Is Your Body Worth? (infograph)

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/body-worth1.gif?quality=85>)

Unfortunately, most of us are worth more dead than alive. At least, you probably are if you are a recent college grad. It may sound crazy, and more than a little morbid, but there is an active market (mostly an illegal, black market), for human body parts. With over 113,000 people on waiting lists for organ transplants and only a little over 14,000 organs donated last year, the price of your body is quite high.

[![Image source](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/body-worth1.gif>)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/body-worth1.gif>)
*[Image source](<http://www.medicaltranscriptiontraining.org/>)*

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