how much is a dead body worth?

[undergroundpanther]

How much is your 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-your-dead-body-worth/


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?)
Read more,story is from sources at this link.
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-26-03/discussion.cgi.163.html

[liberal N proud]

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.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. And there are probably other conditions under which we could value a body.

Like in Soylent Green, for example.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. So how much is a rarely used brain from Crawford worth??

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I just haddda ask . . .

[dysfunctional press]

5. being kind of hard on cindy are't you? just because she's a model...

it doesn't make her brain-dead.

[TWiley]

8. you are bieng hard on Cindy, Canuk was talkin about shrub

[ConcernedCanuk]

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:thumbsup:

[dysfunctional press]

4. it depends on the body- most necrophiliacs will give you more than $2 though...

[liberal N proud]

6. That falls under reuse

:puke:

[MADem]

7. If they grind up the skin and inject it into the lips of people who will not grow old gracefully,

it's worth a LOT more!

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1769622,00.html

'Corpses used for cosmetics'
13/09/2005 11:09 - (SA)

London - A British newspaper on Tuesday said that a Chinese cosmetics company was using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe.

Agents for the firm, which could not be named for legal reasons, have told would-be customers that skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot is being used to develop collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments, the Guardian newspaper said following an undercover investigation.

"The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is 'traditional' and nothing to 'make such a big fuss about'," the daily alleged. ....

And then, there's.....SOYLENT GREEN!!!!!

[Vinca]

9. I was thinking about the value of a human life today after listening

to opposition to health care for everyone. How many people do the Republicans feel should die from lack of medical care before something is done? Right off the bat we've got a statistic quoted of 18,000 a year dying right now because they can't afford care. That's six 9/11s. How many health care 9/11s are acceptable to the Republicans?