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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008, 02:20 PM
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?"Read more of this story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/19/126210&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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