All over the world, organ harvesting is a legal medical practice as long as the organ donor permits the removal and donation of own organs. In some cases when the donor is clinically dead and can’t decide, the immediate family will give the permission to either donate the organs of the deceased family member or not.

Although organ donation is a helpful way to save the lives of people needing organs, there are still a lot of people needing it and the number of donors is very few. This results to thousands of people dying every year waiting for available organs or donors. In this case, some people who have money seek for faster organ sources which are illegal.

The worldwide trade of human organs such as heart is still ongoing. To people needing the organs, this can be a life-saving solution but to innocent people, this can be a threat. In the world organ trade, the price of human heart in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Africa is $290,000. In China, it is only worth $130,000 while in Colombia, it sells at $90,000. Even if very overpriced, rich families take the opportunity to approach these traders just to save the life of their family member.