By Henry D Gombya
Recycled human body parts are turning up everywhere as replacements for torn ligaments, dental gums, nose repairs,etc.
A group of investigative journalists are set to shock the world when they reveal how corporate businesses are minting millions of dollars from recycling dead humans often without the knowledge of grieving families. During an eight-month investigation involving 11 countries, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) found that the business of recycling dead humans has grown so large over the past decade that one could now buy stock in publicly traded companies that rely on corpses for their raw materials.
ICIJ also discovered that skin and bones donated by relatives of the dead are now being turned into many items routinely used in certain kinds of hospital operations, in dentistry and plastic surgery. “Distributors of the merchandise can be found all over the world. Some are subsidiaries of billion-dollar, multinational medical corporations,” the ICIJ said.
Announcing the launching of its new investigation, ICIJ’s Maria Walker Guevara said: “We found patients aren’t always told that the product they are getting originated from a corpse.” She added: “Distributors of the merchandise can be found in the European Union, China, Canada, Thailand, India, South Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. Some are subsidiaries of billion-dollar multinational medical corporations.”
On Monday, at the Google Ideas INFO Summit in Los Angeles, the ICIJ launched its new investigation which they have named “Skin & Bone: The Shadowy Global Trade in Human Body Parts” .
We publish below, the first installment of a four-part series of the ICIJ investigation.
So it is true!!!!!! I once watched a movie in which a mortuary guard would sell body parts from the bodies he was supposed to care for to some shady company.
What has this world come to? With people becoming so much obsessed with money not caring about how they make it as long as they have “fat” accounts at the expense of the grieved families. Others becoming so much obsessed with their looks not bothering to ask the source of those anti- wrinkles cream as long as they look like that cover girl on the magazine.
Many thanks to all those that have exposed this vice .