How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?

BBC, Horizon, Michael Lachmann

Title: How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
Producer: BBC, Horizon, Michael Lachmann
Category: Society, Horizon
Views: 1617
Added: Jul 30th 2010
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When veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke died in 2004 few suspected that he was yet to uncover his greatest story. What happened to his body as it lay in a funeral home would reveal a story of modern day grave robbery and helped smash a body-snatching ring that had made millions of dollars by chopping up and selling-off over 1000 bodies. Dead bodies have become big business.

Each year millions of people’s lives are improved by the use of tissue from the dead. Bodies are used to supply spare parts, and for surgeons to practice on.

Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts and uncovers the growing industry and grisly black market that supplies human bodies for a price.

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