Worst nightmare come true.

This was just icky all around. The hairs on my arm are standing.

.....Authorities say Biomedical Tissue Services secretly carved up hundreds of cadavers — among them, that of the British-born host of "Masterpiece Theatre," Alistair Cooke — without the families of the deceased knowing about it. They then peddled the pieces on the lucrative non-organ body parts market.

Even scarier: They say BTS doctored paperwork to hide the inconvenient fact that some of the dead were too old and diseased to be donors. As a result, they say, the market was flooded with potentially tainted tissue, and an untold number of patients across the country may have received infections along with their dental implants and hip replacements.....

.....Authorities released photos of exhumed corpses that were boned below the waist like a freshly caught fish. The defendants, they alleged, had made a crude attempt to cover their tracks by sewing PVC pipe back into the bodies in time for open-casket wakes.....

You should read the article. s'a long one, but worthy. You hear vague stories of how medical and pharmaceutical companies are so aggressive about profits, but you'd never in your life imagine someone taking diseased tissue from cadavers and selling'em.


Ugh! Pity the poor souls who carry this same tissue!