Dark Harvest
Here’s a very disturbing article about a New York based tissue harvesting company called Biomedical Tissue Services which was caught stealing body parts from cadavers in funeral homes:
The man’s body stretched out in front of Lee Cruceta in the back room of a Manhattan funeral home after hours one day last summer had yellowish skin. His vacant eyes had the same sickly cast - a sign of jaundice. Cruceta telephoned his boss, Michael Mastromarino, to tell him the bad news: The body had failed inspection.…
The boss came down, checked out the body himself and declared that “everything looked fine.”
Out came the surgical tools. The extraction of flesh and bone began.
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.…
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.
Not only does this brew up fresh hell for the families of the violated cadavers as well as innocent tissue recipients with God-knows-what stuffed and stitched to their bodies, but it reminded me of an Invader Zim episode that really scares the shit out of me (Dark Harvest, parts I and II). Thanks for stirring up trouble, freaky body snatchers.
More organs means more human!!! - Zim