Post by Chips on May 7, 2008 9:44:57 GMT 9.5
Not the greatest gift
Craig Gill thinks material wealth is the greatest gift he can give his child ("Please, buy my kidney to secure her future", May 6).
Think again, Craig. Your daughter will have to find her place in the world, and having everything handed to her on a platter is not the way to go about it. Give her a healthy father who lets her make her own mistakes and her future.
Nobody ever had a better life because of ballet lessons, but many a childhood has been marred by the ill-health of a parent.
Marian Lorrison Northbridge
The front-page announcement by a Mr Craig Gill that it took him "less than 30 seconds to decide he would sell his kidney to finance ballet lessons and a home deposit for his two-year-old daughter" worried me.
A 44-year-old kidney in exchange for a few dozen Arthur Murray classes and, possibly, the spa bathroom component of a house for his daughter, smacks of a chronically tardy and immature plan for their mutual future. I wondered what he could be thinking of. Then I noted his daughter's name is Petal.
Rosemary O'Brien Georges Hall
It's sad to see the moralisers and wowsers come out with dire predictions of doom just because mature adults want to sell body organs. What gives them the right to impose their values on everyone else? In today's globalised economy, selling a kidney is a financial transaction between consenting adults which is no one else's business. If people want to sell their kidneys, it is their body, their choice.
Nigel Freitas Roseville
Craig Gill thinks material wealth is the greatest gift he can give his child ("Please, buy my kidney to secure her future", May 6).
Think again, Craig. Your daughter will have to find her place in the world, and having everything handed to her on a platter is not the way to go about it. Give her a healthy father who lets her make her own mistakes and her future.
Nobody ever had a better life because of ballet lessons, but many a childhood has been marred by the ill-health of a parent.
Marian Lorrison Northbridge
The front-page announcement by a Mr Craig Gill that it took him "less than 30 seconds to decide he would sell his kidney to finance ballet lessons and a home deposit for his two-year-old daughter" worried me.
A 44-year-old kidney in exchange for a few dozen Arthur Murray classes and, possibly, the spa bathroom component of a house for his daughter, smacks of a chronically tardy and immature plan for their mutual future. I wondered what he could be thinking of. Then I noted his daughter's name is Petal.
Rosemary O'Brien Georges Hall
It's sad to see the moralisers and wowsers come out with dire predictions of doom just because mature adults want to sell body organs. What gives them the right to impose their values on everyone else? In today's globalised economy, selling a kidney is a financial transaction between consenting adults which is no one else's business. If people want to sell their kidneys, it is their body, their choice.
Nigel Freitas Roseville