Is the soul an organ? The new film Cold Souls somewhat treats it at such, to the point of giving it a physical manifestation. The soul of “Paul Giamatti” (played by Paul Giamatti), for instance, resembles a chickpea. And in the film, a great Charlie Kaufman-esque comedy from filmmaker Sophia Barthes, souls are traded, trafficked and stolen, just like kidneys and livers. After Paul puts his soul in storage, it’s nabbed and brought to Russia for the benefit of a young actress who thinks the essence of a famous American actor will improve her craft.

The lesson here is that you shouldn’t store your soul, no matter how much of a burden it may be, particularly if you’re a celebrity or of a profession where your soul might be in high demand on the black market. The movies have long informed us of other ways we might lose an organ, intentionally or not, so if you wish to keep all your insides inside, take heed of the following five methods:

1. You Are Born to Lose

In the recent movie My Sister’s Keeper, Abigail Breslin is conceived as a genetic match for her sister so that her organs may be compatible with the elder, leukemia-stricken sibling. But just because you’re born to lose doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily lose anything. The main plot of Keeper has to do with Breslin’s character legally fighting with her parents in order to hold onto her kidney. Similarly, though more science fiction, both Michael Bay’s The Island and the much earlier (and plagiarized) Parts: The Clonus Horror, involve clones created for the sole purpose of organ harvesting. In this situation it is also possible to keep your parts intact if you’re curious enough about your purpose and able to escape the breeding compound.

2. You Travel to Brazil

There are plenty of locations around the globe where illegal organ trade occurs, so why should we specifically blame it on Rio (and its country)? Well, the recent thriller Turistas was probably the most viewed film about the issue, and it really aimed to make the audience aware that this tourism nightmare is not just urban legend. Also, the organ-theft operation in the movie was tied to reported cases of rich whites taking advantage of their minority class employees. So, Turistas teaches us that you can lose an organ by being a lower class Brazilian or by being a white tourist subject to payback for such injustice.

3. You Want to Travel to Brazil (or elsewhere)

It’s not uncommon to intentionally lose an organ; obviously there is such a practice as organ donation. Maybe you want to give one of your kidneys to a relative in need, or maybe you’ve got the organ donor sticker on your driver’s license so that you can give up parts after you die. In Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, however, the intentional loss is for the personal benefit of receiving an illegal passport with a new identity. Technically these passports are for desperate immigrants looking to fraudulently remain in the UK, but they could also presumably be used for further travel, perhaps to Brazil, where the donor could wind up losing his/her other kidney unintentionally.

4. You Lose Right of Possession

Cold Souls also deals with the idea of renting, or borrowing, other people’s souls, and in a way there is a situation that calls for the repossession of such a borrowed spirit. Two other films involve the idea of organ repossession, only with less metaphysical body parts. Darren Lynn Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera features a company that provides organ transplants more affordably by allowing for a payment plan. But if the receiver fails to pay, he/she of course loses the rent-to-own body part to repossession. Then there’s Alejandro Adams’ new dystopian film Canary (screening in New York this Friday night), in which repossession occurs if the receiving patient fails to take care of the new organ in a healthy manner stipulated by the film’s corporation.

5. You Want an Abortion

Thirty years ago, Michael Crichton’s Coma scared potential patients of elective surgery with a story of organ harvesting that seemed eerily plausible. In the film, healthy people admitted for voluntary procedures wind up in comas and eventually become victims of organ theft. The investigation that uncovers the conspiracy begins after a woman seeking an abortion comes out of the operation in a vegetative state. But it’s anything but an implication that the patient is being punished for seeking to get rid of her pregnancy, though there is a sort of irony in her ending up losing more insides than she’d planned on. In any event, if you’re like the unlucky victims in Coma, you’re also brain-dead — and eventually fully dead — so you’ve certainly got a much bigger problem than merely losing an organ.