I remember hearing this story [1] on the radio a while back. It's one of those things that leaves you wondering just how low human beings can sink:
February 23,2006 | NEW YORK -- The owner of a New Jersey biomedical company and three other men have been indicted for alleging plotting to carve up cadavers from New York funeral homes and selling the bone and skin for transplants, authorities said Thursday.
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It is the latest chapter in a widening scandal involving scores of funeral homes and hundreds of looted bodies, including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke, who died in March 2004.
The body parts have been tracked to several states where they were used in transplants.
Not only were bodies stolen from the families of the deceased, but documents were falsified such that people who receive these transplants may be receiving diseased tissues. It's just sick.
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