ABANDONED. SF: organ donation and artificial replacement

[Cait]

A friend once (within the past decade) read a "science fiction" novel -- he guesses that's the genre -- in which an important plot theme was this: A person needing money sold a small body part, and prospered, but also found the sale altruistically satisfying. So, part by part, he sold off major body parts, to the point where he was reduced to a torso and head carried around by his close friend. In the end, a recipient of one of the body parts invents a technique for perfectly replacing lost body parts, so the donor is at the book's end restored to a full complement of body parts, mostly "artificial."

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Cait left the group. Moving to Abandoned.