Cancer reminds this survivor that we are much more than our bodies.
PUBLISHED December 21, 2018
Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com www.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com
According to a recent article in Wired magazine, a human body could be worth up to $45 million dollars as calculated by selling the bone marrow, DNA, lungs, kidneys and heart as components. I'm modestly embarrassed to admit that at the age of 22, while living in Northern California in a commune during the early 70s, my musician roommates and I were desperate for rent (and probably beer money), and we heard that we could actually sell our bodies to science for a tidy sum.
The idea was, or so we had been told, that if we signed a contract to donate our bodies for scientific research (at a hopefully much later date) we would be given a wad of money to spend as we wished. Needless to say, the several hospitals we called to offer our "services" greeted us with a good deal of disbelief and incredulous good humor. They weren't buying our sales pitch. The rent would have to wait. The beer was another story.....
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