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Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes

Posted by timothy on from the surplus-to-requirements dept.

fernlyn writes with word of a report detailing a decades-long practice of clandestine post-mortem organ removal from the bodies of dozens of workers in the UK's nuclear energy industry; Britain's Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has apologized to the families of those workers whose organs were taken without consent or even acknowledgement. Many of the organs taken were removed without any apparent forensic purpose in mind. Surviving relatives are understandably upset with what they see as cavalier treatment of their loved ones' bodies (even beyond unauthorized organ removal), such as the replacement of bones with lengths of broomstick.

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  1. Klingons do not problems with body's by Shadow-Wing · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A dead body is only an empty shell(Klingon Death Ritual)

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    1. Re:Klingons do not problems with body's by mwvdlee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      A Q doesn't even have a body and a chrystaline entity would be hard to disect.
      But those are all Star Trek imaginations, none of which matter to the real world.

      What matters is what happens to the dead bodies of My Little Ponies.

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  2. thom mcfadden by thom+Mcfaddden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how sad, human body should be respected at all times. http://www.lifestand.com/