The Real Body Snatchers

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC are reporting on a grisly trade lying behind the booming business for replacement body parts in medical procedures. Many unscrupulous "dealers" will procure body parts from anyone willing to deal them — e.g., undertakers, medics — and will process them for resale onto legitimate companies. Apparently a fully processed cadaver can fetch up to $250,000. Now, who says I'm worth more alive than dead?"

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Goatse

[Anonymous Coward]

Goatse.

You nerd faggots love it.

Also, Zeus sucks cock.

You think it's no big deal

[BadAnalogyGuy]

But this isn't just happening to dead people. There are gangs that prowl the club scene looking for young adults who they can steal organs from. My cousin went to school with a guy that this happened to. He went dancing at the club near the university (in NYC) and chatting it up with some random skank when the next thing he realizes is that he's in the emergency room of Mt Sinai hooked up to an IV and a terrible throbbing in his back. The doctor told him that someone had removed his left kidney. There's a lot of money to be made in providing fresh organs from young people. He was a hapless victim.

Swear to god. You think taking your shit after you die is bad, but the real threat is getting harvested by these organ gangs.

Re:How much would organ donation help?

[TheCRAIGGERS]

I have to wonder how much those of you who aren't organ donors are to blame for this.

None. You're not (usually) an organ donor until you die. And as far as I know, dead people can't read slashdot.

Re:Attention teenage single mothers

[MrNaz]

And there we have it ladies and gentlemen. The absolutely positively most tasteless joke ever made on Slashdot. Need I remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that this accolade is not a small achievement, as Slashdot is home of the recurring pointless meme, the overaggressive dupe Nazi, legions of spelling and grammar Nazis all trying to outdo each other on how insulting they each can be and of course, countless attempts to induce unsuspecting people to view an image of the inside of a man's painfully (or perhaps pleasurably as we know very little of the inclinations of the subject of *that* famous photo) distended anus. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the post just above shows a level of crass tastelessness that outshines all previous examples. Please put your hands together for Malevolent Tester (1201209)!