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What's Your Dead Body Worth?

Sources: British Broadcasting Corporation, Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains by Annie Cheney.

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What's Your Dead Body Worth?
Dead bodies have always been used in medicine. But demand for human tissue is outstripping supply, resulting in the gruesome new trade of body broking, in which unscrupulous traders have used the bodies of those who haven't given their permission, with devastating consequences.In this slideshow, however, we take a look at what companies legitimately trading in body parts — those who source from willing donors and sell to legitimate medical facilities — are making on specific body parts.Want to f
What's Your Dead Body Worth?
Dead bodies have always been used in medicine. But demand for human tissue is outstripping supply, resulting in the gruesome new trade of body broking, in which unscrupulous traders have used the bodies of those who haven't given their permission, with devastating consequences.In this slideshow, however, we take a look at what companies legitimately trading in body parts — those who source from willing donors and sell to legitimate medical facilities — are making on specific body parts.Want to f

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Spine

The spine is used primarily by surgeons for testing orthopedic implants.

Price: $900

Of Note: If a body broker decides to form a company in the United States to sell body parts for research or education, no one checks the company's books or makes sure the bodies are obtained legally.

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Sources: British Broadcasting Corporation, Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains by Annie Cheney.