Donate to science = your body used for shits and giggles by medical students.
Last scandal I read was that some bodies were sold for a public theater autopsy. You could buy a ticket to watch a medical examiner take a body apart.
Each year, thousands of Americans donate their bodies in the belief they are contributing to science. In fact, many are also unwittingly contributing to commerce, their bodies traded as raw material in a largely unregulated national market.
Body brokers are also known as non-transplant tissue banks. They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant industry, which the U.S. government closely regulates. Selling hearts, kidneys and tendons for transplant is illegal. But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education. Few state laws provide any oversight whatsoever, and almost anyone, regardless of expertise, can dissect and sell human body parts.
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As with other commodities, prices for bodies and body parts fluctuate with market conditions. Generally, a broker can sell a donated human body for about $3,000 to $5,000, though prices sometime top $10,000. But a broker will typically divide a cadaver into six parts to meet customer needs. Internal documents from seven brokers show a range of prices for body parts: $3,575 for a torso with legs; $500 for a head; $350 for a foot; $300 for a spine.
It's big business. Just one more example of good intentions being commercially exploited to the point of depravity.
Reminds me of that Sean Bean Frankenstein series. Not sure how historically accurate all the stuff about government votes on cadaver laws were, but it was certainly a fascinating and eye opening backdrop and set-up for the plot.
There was also an interesting film by Michael Crichton in 1978 called Coma. Really fucking creepy. Not to mention horrifyingly plausible.
Obviously do your due diligence before agreeing to anything. There are programs out there beyond medical schools that use cadavers. Donating to science is not a route that I'd personally choose, but I acknowledge that others feels strongly about this and I'd rather they not end up as tranny rot pockets.
Donate to science = your body used for shits and giggles by medical students.
Last scandal I read was that some bodies were sold for a public theater autopsy. You could buy a ticket to watch a medical examiner take a body apart.
(...)
It's big business. Just one more example of good intentions being commercially exploited to the point of depravity.
It has to be alive for it to be a vivisection, it's literally in the word. (Vivus = alive.) If it's a dead body it's just an autopsy.
Couldn't think of the word. ;)
Reminds me of that Sean Bean Frankenstein series. Not sure how historically accurate all the stuff about government votes on cadaver laws were, but it was certainly a fascinating and eye opening backdrop and set-up for the plot.
There was also an interesting film by Michael Crichton in 1978 called Coma. Really fucking creepy. Not to mention horrifyingly plausible.
Or in other words, your corpse has value! Your loved ones should be paid 5-10k for it, otherwise, into the woods it goes!
Obviously do your due diligence before agreeing to anything. There are programs out there beyond medical schools that use cadavers. Donating to science is not a route that I'd personally choose, but I acknowledge that others feels strongly about this and I'd rather they not end up as tranny rot pockets.