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Sigrid Fry-Revere

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Travel and discovery is in my blood. By the time I was nine, I have visited over 30 countries and lived in six. I didn't settle down and start to learn to read and write English until I was ten. I never traveled that much again.

Instead I went to college, married, bought a small farm, and had four children. After moving around my whole childhood, it felt good to have a stable home base. My husband Bob and I have lived outside of Waterford Virginia for over 22 years.

Despite all my exposure to different cultures, I was terrified of the thought of going to Iran, but I was driven by the thought that there may be something there -- something hidden because I wasn't the only one afraid to go-- what if Iran held the answer to solving the organ shor Travel and discovery is in my blood. By the time I was nine, I have visited over 30 countries and lived in six. I didn't settle down and start to learn to read and write English until I was ten. I never traveled that much again.

Instead I went to college, married, bought a small farm, and had four children. After moving around my whole childhood, it felt good to have a stable home base. My husband Bob and I have lived outside of Waterford Virginia for over 22 years.

Despite all my exposure to different cultures, I was terrified of the thought of going to Iran, but I was driven by the thought that there may be something there -- something hidden because I wasn't the only one afraid to go-- what if Iran held the answer to solving the organ shortage.

I went and saw amazing things, much of which I captured on tape, but that was only the beginning of a long struggle I didn't expect. Many Americans don't want to hear anything good about Iran. I would say that not everything I experienced was good -- but still, when I said "Iran" many people simply turned away and refused to listen. This, attitude, by the way, is called the fallacy of generalization: Just because the Iranian government has done many bad things, doesn't mean everything it does is bad.

I wanted to shout -- Listen, Listen -- we could learn something from Iran. Not many people listened. Luckily, in the six years since I've returned from Iran, other countries like Israel, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia have started to institute programs with some similarity to what Iran has done (namely paying kidney donors) so people are starting to listen. In the meantime 20-30 Americans die every day for lack of a transplant, but in many regions of Iran there are waiting lists for people who want to donate.

I first thought about the organ shortage 24 years ago when my son had kidney cancer, but now, finally, after all this time, I might actually have some answers. I so want to share the amazing stories of the people I met in Iran, and help people understand that donating a kidney whether for money, or not, is always a good deed -- as long as the donor gives informed consent, paying to make a good deed possible is itself a good deed. Society started paying firefighters because there weren't enough volunteer firefighters. Does paying a firefighter in any way make his or her service to society less valuable? The same is true for kidney donors. Sometimes money makes altruism possible.

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	The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran 4.23 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Note that all royalties from this book go to support the SOS (Solving the Organ Shortage) Project.

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