Want to buy a head? On the American body-part market, the going price is between $500 and $900, plus another $50 if you'd like the brain, too. A torso will set you back as much as $3,000, while a single foot could cost $650.

At these prices, there's plenty of temptation for people to take advantage of the dead. But as a disturbing new book reveals, the burgeoning trade in human remains is largely unmonitored. Universities, mortuaries and medical companies routinely buy and sell arms, legs and elbows with virtually no oversight.

The inevitable result? Crooked deals, stolen corpses and lots of looking the other way.

"No one knows how many bodies go into the system and no one knows what happens to them," writes journalist Annie Cheney.

Why worry about the dead? Cheney finds families shocked to learn their loved ones are destined for, among other things, testing of anti-mine protective armor. And lest you think the dead don't deserve any special treatment, she tells the grim story of how mishandled bodily tissue killed a young man who underwent a routine orthopedic operation using bone from a cadaver. The killer? Deadly bacteria from the bone's donor, a young man who shot himself and went undiscovered for almost a day.

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Head $900
Brain $50
Foot $650
Torso $3000 Having a dead body in your home that you didn’t murder "PRICELESS"

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Why is the brain so cheap?
(^that is rhetorical, people)

yuuuummy!

I wonder how they come up with the prices for these organs. They do seem to be rather cheap when you consider the benefits they could provide to many in need.

They are not able to be used in medical transplant kind of situations. Medical schools have to buy many bodies and body parts for the gross anatomy classes where the students must disect a human body...

^Indeed, I`ve heard all about those classes at my university which I have just started at this year.
Although that still wouldn`t stop certain members of our race jacking up the price because of what these organs "could" have meant to someone. I meant to post in past tense earlier but I was up way too early this morning to travel to the opening day of athletics at the Commonwealth Games!

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That is kind of sick, but doesn't surprise me. I wonder what you would do with the body parts? I wonder if anyone buys them to eat?

I hope no one does, but I`m shure that some crazy people do. I hope this will be illegal when i am ded ! /

I couldn't care less what happens to my body when I die. It's not like I'll be around to do anything about it I do want to be spare parts though

i wonder how much animal parts go for?

ewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!


Bet satanic people go to that shop.

*Sarcatically*I bet it is.

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I would take revenge to people who eat me, by being a ghost,and going into peoples body.