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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on February 27, 2009, 01:13:28 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5140845
Oh my.
This one, I banged into while looking for something else.
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 01:42 PM
Original message
how much is a dead body worth?
We have all heard those silly expressions like “I would give my right arm for that†referring to something unattainably expensive, but how far would one go if the situation was desperate, would one actually give their right arm?
Today it is a possibility as the illegal trade in organs and tissues booms. There is a great demand for organs as the ratio of those in need of organs outweighs the amount of donors available. Demand has to be met with supply, and with a space in the market to make some money people are going to fill it, however illegal it may be.
The World Health Organisation in 1991 produced guidelines to prevent this sort of trading in organs. These are seen more as a recommendation and are not law, but have been accepted by 192 countries.
Due to the non-binding factor though these can be overlooked and in cases like Iran have been - a country where a system of trading organs has been legalised. Increased numbers of people looking for the transplants are now travelling abroad to get them, to places like China and Iran.
http://www.thecollegeview.com/2008/12/14/how-much-is-yo... /
Remember "Funeralgate"?
NOBLE, Georgia (CNN) -- A county judge issued a gag order Thursday in the case of a crematory operator accused of failing to cremate hundreds of bodies and hiding them on his northwest Georgia property instead.
Walker County Superior Court Judge Ralph Hill issued the order in the early evening. It cut short a news briefing by law enforcement officials near Tri-State Crematory in Noble, near Georgia's borders with Tennessee and Alabama.
Before the order was announced, Georgia Chief Medical Examiner Kris Sperry said investigators had completed emptying six burial vaults found on the crematory's grounds. The vaults, each designed to hold one body, contained 67 sets of remains, Sperry said.
(remains? what was taken OUT of those remains?)
liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 01:55 PM
Response to Original message
1. The dollar value of the chemical composition of a person is around $2
But when you start talking about reusing organs, the value is what ever someone is willing to pay.
Eh, but an organ's useless if it's not removed within minutes of death.
dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-26-09 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. it depends on the body- most necrophiliacs will give you more than $2 though...
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The U-Katze's only chance is to hope they're paying by the pound.
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There's a guy in Cincinnati who would probably give her more than two bucks.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090227/NEWS0107/902270346/1055/NEWS
:evillaugh:
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There's a guy in Cincinnati who would probably give her more than two bucks.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090227/NEWS0107/902270346/1055/NEWS
:evillaugh:
I saw that, too, and thought, "Even a necrophiliac has standards."
Therefore, the Gutter Gato would probably have to pay the necrophiliac to take its' body.
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Subway Cat's post:
Before the order was announced, Georgia Chief Medical Examiner Kris Sperry said investigators had completed emptying six burial vaults found on the crematory's grounds. The vaults, each designed to hold one body, contained 67 sets of remains, Sperry said.
(remains? what was taken OUT of those remains?)
Hey retarded kitty, any human bodies are often referred to as "remains". It doesn't imply that anything was taken from them. That case was all about a fraudulent funeral director that was not disposing of bodies properly. It had nothing to do with illegally harvesting organs. However, several years ago there was such a case on the east coast, but the bodies, (remains) were being given their normal burials.
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Maybe a Carnival Sideshow might have some use for her.
I can see the posters now.
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Given her mental history and drug use, I think she would probably be refused as an organ donor. She can always move to China.
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I threw up in my mouth a little reading the thread title.
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I threw up in my mouth a little reading the thread title.
I do write good eye-grabbing headlines, don't I?
Not always, but usually.
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I do write good eye-grabbing headlines, don't I?
Not always, but usually.
That you do Frank!
Now I have to go vacum my skull to get rid of the image......