Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade

[Gerald]

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.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates...odies-brokers/

That organ sales now, know the majority of us now. But different prices for body parts, but what will be the next step?.



Note: Part 1 Filed Oct. 24, 2017, 11 a.m. GMT

[August]

Originally Posted by Vendor

...what will be the next step?.

[STEED]

I rather Soylent Yellow.

[Buddahaid]

[Skybird]

I have a note in my wallet all the time, ruling that in case of an accident and me not regaining consciousness again or being unable to decide, I refuse to donate body tissues or organs, and also rule out that organs and tissues by others get used on me.

I do not give, and I do not take.

I would consider that only in individual cases and relating to people that are close and dear to me. The kind of people whom I will to take risks for to protect them, or to fight for to defend them. And that excludes just every strolling Peter and Paul. Talking of family, very close friends, and thats it.

A general card blanche for a general bureaucracy to decide on? No.

Abuse of transplant organs in Germany is far from being insignificant. I do not want to help some corrupt doctor to cash extra bribery money just to help out some stranger who never meant anything to me. This doctor around then stiul wpould infest the whole system.

Maybe my position is considered as cold-hearted. But it is my cold heart, and not somebody else's.

It goes natural that if I do not give, I also do not demand to be given.

Slam that door, please.

Also, many people are not aware - since it is intentionally hidden from the debate - that the redefinitions of criteria for death and when a patient is dead, have been moved according to the needs of transplantaiton surgery over the decades, the transplantation criteria did not follow the insights of medical research into "death". Today'S brain-death criterion is the result of demands by transplant surgeonms. Because organs taken from an indeed physicologically dead body, cannot be used for transplantation. This never gets said and mentioned anywhere. If somebody is close to death, some may argue since his life is running out anyway, that he should donate the remaining few seconds or minutes or hours or days to give years to somebody else, but truth is that by that you create facts and rule out any other possbilities that sometimes, rarely but sometimes, may happen, against all medical knoweldge and experience. Personally I simply take it qwueer that it silently gets implied that the cause justifies the means and that the public gets lied to in order to increase their willingness to donate - on the grounds of false information.

While I lived, people will time and again have made good use of me, my means, my presence, my money, whatever my existence may have made in difference. I must not even get managed by foreign power in my own death and dying, and be a ressource for the profiteering of others beyond my death. Enough is enough.

No, a great altruistic friend of all mankind I will not become anymore.

[Aktungbby]

^ "Egad! but I love men of your kidney Sir!"

[MaDef]

Funny you should mention Soylent Green, I came across an article on water cremation. very interesting read.

[Reece]

[Gerald]

Part 2: After a few emails, a body broker sold reporter Brian Grow two heads and a cervical spine. The spine came from a young man whose parents were too poor to bury him – and they say they never knew his body would be sold.

TOWNSEND, Tennessee – Cody Saunders was born in 1992 with failing kidneys and a hole in his heart.

When he died on his 24th birthday, he had endured 66 surgeries and more than 1,700 rounds of dialysis, his parents said. Some days, he hid the pain in upbeat selfies on Facebook. Other days, he shared an excruciating reality, posing in a hospital bed with bandages strapped across his scarred chest.

On his Facebook profile, Cody wrote that he was looking for a girlfriend who will accept “me for me.”

“Y am I ugly,” he posted on Christmas Day 2015.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates...a-bodies-cody/