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Stargazer99

(2,585 posts)
1. I'll bet the middleclass and rich don't donate their familys bodies
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 11:58 PM
Feb 2018

The way this country regards the life of the lower income human being like trash...something to be used like animals. What makes you think a corp has any moral values? I see corporations valuing money only and I'll bet this will lead to murders (some things should NEVER be infused with capitalism). But of course this would never happen, right?

Rhiannon12866

(205,467 posts)
4. Both my aunt and uncle did - they donated them to a major medical center here in New York
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 05:04 AM
Mar 2018

Both of my uncle's parents did before them, so it became a kind of tradition. They had a "memorial service" instead of a funeral and then a graveside burial service about a year later. I don't know the details, but it's not something they'd do without really looking into it. But I also found this report very disturbing.

KT2000

(20,581 posts)
2. free marketers love this
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 02:27 AM
Mar 2018

they want to turn organs for transplants into a for profit industry. They want the rich to get the organs and the poor to supply them.

In some countries (India for one)poor people can sell a kidney for cash and they can be expected to use one of their kidneys as collateral for loans. Other countries have been found to use prisoners for supplying all kinds of organs.

What this man is saying is horrible but it will make it into state houses where the tea party-free marketers will push it. It has been in the works because the wealthy do not believe they should have to wait in line and not be more important than everyone else.

3Hotdogs

(12,390 posts)
5. Over the past 20 years, N.Y.C. area has experienced indictments on selling of body parts from
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 08:06 AM
Mar 2018

funeral homes.

Allister (Masterpiece Theater) Cook's remains were marketed.

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