According to the charges filed against Biomedical Tissue Services and its employees, more than 1,000 corpses were harvested from area funeral homes. Forging consent documents, death certificates, and concealing disease and substance abuse were among the allegations, including the almost archaic charges of body stealing and opening graves.Jim Knipfel in his article, "Corpse Desecration: What's In It For Me?," points out that the demand for body parts has exceeded the supply and has contributed to a black market of body parts that is growing 5 to 10 percent annually. Human life may be pretty cheap, but on the open market the average body could be worth about $150,000. A number of the articles dealing with this case have pointed out the costs of human body parts and that all parts of the body can be sold.
There are medical concerns about how safe the recipients of these body and tissue transplants are. Two years ago, a 22-year-old healthy recipient suddenly died from a rare bacterium he acquired from his implant. Twenty-two people in Oregon contracted hepatitis C, and three people in New York and New Jersey acquired syphilis from illegally harvested tissue. (SOURCE)
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