How Much is Your Dead Body Worth is a shocking documentary about veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke who died in 2004, few suspected that he was yet to uncover his greatest story. What happened to his body as it lay in a funeral home would reveal a story of modern day grave robbery and helped smash a body-snatching ring that had made millions of dollars by chopping up and selling-off over 1000 bodies. Dead bodies have become big business.
Each year millions of people’s lives are improved by the use of tissue from the dead. Bodies are used to supply spare parts, and for surgeons to practice on.
BBC Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts and uncovers the growing industry and grisly black market that supplies human bodies for a price.
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While the relatives of the dead get zilch from this I presume
why cant they do it openly, every one dies every day, I wouldnt mind giving my body so that others get good life.
Based on reports from the U.S. insurance firms and medical facilities, the price for a heart is $57,000, lung for $116,400, and a kidney for $91,400 that makes the body of a human being is probably the most lucrative to be robbed. insurance firms and medical facilities, the price for a heart is $57,000, lung for $116,400, and a kidney for $91,400 that makes the body of a human being is probably the most lucrative to be robbed.