Sunday, October 29, 2017
If you want to know what happens to dead bodies donated to science, read this
Now, this is what I call "investigative journalism" ... if only there were more journalists going deep into the nitty-gritty of how and why billionaires buy politicians and news media and become puppet masters of our world....wouldn't that be great?!
Brian Grow and John Shiffman at Reuters
Cashing in on the donated dead
The Body Trade
In the U.S. market for human bodies, almost anyone can dissect and sell the dead
Part 1: When Americans leave their bodies to science, they are also donating to commerce: Cadavers and body parts, especially those of the poor, are sold in a thriving and largely unregulated market. Grisly abuses abound.
LAS VEGAS – The company stacked brochures in funeral parlors around Sin City. On the cover: a couple clasping hands. Above the image, a promise: “Providing Options in Your Time of Need.”
The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one’s body to “advance medical studies.”
Outside Southern Nevada’s suburban warehouse, the circumstances were far from comforting. In the fall of 2015, neighboring tenants began complaining about a mysterious stench and bloody boxes in a Dumpster. That December, local health records show, someone contacted authorities to report odd activity in the courtyard.
Health inspectors found a man in medical scrubs holding a garden hose. He was thawing a frozen human torso in the midday sun.
As the man sprayed the remains, “bits of tissue and blood were washed into the gutters,” a state health report said. The stream weaved past storefronts and pooled across the street near a technical school. ....
Part 2
Part 3
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