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Sell your body,heart and soul for $500,000
Saturday, July 12, 2008, 10:55 PM

Selling your apartment? How bout your body? These things are not new to society. But how about selling your heart(not literally) and soul? This woman in the US did just that with a package that includs her apartment, her body, heart and soul. Is this what society is moving towards?

I was reading this article not too long ago and i got a shock. Very soon, we would not be debating about whether we should legalise prostitution and sex tourism in some countries but whether we should legalise the sale of your heart and soul with the number of people putting up themselves and their connections for sales. This woman, Trabosh, isn't the first of her kind and in fact has several predecessors which have tried selling friends, job and body space.

Trabosh is a 42 year old single mother and works in the real estate market. She has been single for eight years and has been trying to sell her four-bedroom home in South Florida over the past year. She has tried anything and almost everything from eBay to Craigslist but to no avail. Despite being a licensed real estate agent, she hasn't been in the line for quite a while and is struggling with trying to sell her home. She allegedly claims that her attempt to sell her body as well was not a sales gimmick but because she really dreamt of being a fairytale princess. Fairytale princess? Perhaps she should be more practical and grow up. Maybe that explains why she is even divorced in the first place.

If you do buy what she says and commit to the deal, you would have to pay a whopping fee of $500,000 for shipping her which is not subsumed under the transaction for the house which cost about $340,000. Is a human worth that much? Is love worth that much? Perhaps. But it just dosen't come with any gurantee, does it? For all you know, she might just possess all the characteristics you hate and have one hell of a devil-may-care attitude which might just drive you up the wall. She wants to be a princess. Princesses are hard to fix, remember?

One of her daughters have expressed embarassment at her mom's act. I think i would be embarassed too if she was my mother. Don't you agree?

As much as websites like eBay ban the sale of human body and parts, perhaps something should be done about these... The world is just getting more ridiculous by the day as we start trading ourselves. Isn't the colossal amount of goods we trade in the world market enough? Obviously no. Just think about the recent organ sale in Singapore and the increasing number of people participating in organ trade and now, the human heart and soul. What's next? I can't imagine.

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