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most of these prices are wrong, if you live in a third world country, you may not even get a tenth of it (for kidney, you may get around $250 (yes, 0 amount is correct) to $5000 (the highest that i have ever heard, and this in particular is a settlement amount paid by some foreigner as a settlement as aftermath to not let it come in news)). And why do I know this, I live where there is illegel organ trafficing, and sometimes poor and destitute are either operated and get these organs stolen from them unknowingly (specifically kidney, because you can technically survive on one) or sometimes they themselves selll them, if they are in really hard situations. And Once in a while, some operation gets shut down and it is in the news
lungs specifically are expensive, because there almost impossibly hard to get out. Brain, Lungs and heart would be hardest to graft organs, mostly because there is no eay way to store it. Brain without blood pumping starts to decay in literal minutes, befor becoming a mass mush. Heart in cryogenic state can be stored for about 1-2 days. Lungs are hard (I don't even know any place where they do lung transplant, I am guessing it happens, but I don't know of it) but basically imagine just as frail as brain (maybe not as frail, but pretty close). basically, if no blood reaches, and there is no inert air pressure maintained, alveoli will start degenerating, and without alveoli, lungs are useless. These are logistical issues - but that is the limiting casee here. Most first world countries will not have enough operations running to get these organs, and if they get them from some third world country, they have a huge race against time.
Hence, there is almost no black market for brains/lungs or conversely if there is one - from supply and demand, the prices shoot sky