In December 2005, Cooke’s family learned that his body had been surgically plundered and the pieces sold to different bidders. A body brokerage company had harvested his bones, falsified his medical records–claiming he had died at 85 of a heart attack–to make them more marketable, and then sold them to at least two tissue banks.
Cooke’s was one of more than 1,000 bodies allegedly stolen by the company, New Jersey–based Biomedical Tissue Services. Prosecutors say the company and the funeral home, Daniel George & Son, made millions of dollars harvesting pieces of the cadavers, instead stuffing bodies for burial with broomsticks and piping. An investigation is ongoing.
Here is the full story, and thanks to Bookman for the pointer.
Opening up a market for organs harvested from the dead would be expected to give incentives the would work against organ theft as in the case you relate. The greiving families would be more likely to allow organs to be harvested (for the money). As harvesting, and attendant contracting, became more common, monitoring systems that make no sense for smaller scale would be implemented.
According to the liberaterian economic theory these two firms concert aboutcheier reputations wtheir reputation on repeat business this could not have happened.
Some MSM nust have made this up as part of their plot to destroy capatilism.
I think you’re all focussing on the minor economic points at the expense of the larger social issue. To wit: Oh that New Jersey!
This points out one of the oddities of current law about selling body parts: it *is* legal– it’s just that the person whose parts they are can’t benefit.
As this case shows, the argument that “if we legalize kidney sales then people will be murdered for their kidneys” is weak, because it already would be possible for somebody to make money murdering people for their kidneys.
Umm…shouldn’t this be a part of the “Markets in Everything” series?
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