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No Respect for the Dead-or the Living

By David Lohr

A bizarre and shameful case involving an illegal body-parts sales scheme that has been making headlines for the past couple of years has made its way back into the courtroom more than once this year, the latest having been during the last week in April when a class action lawsuit representing hundreds of people who are alleging that their family members' body parts were taken and sold for medical use without their permission was filed in a proceeding that has also become a criminal case for several of those named in the suit.  Families involved in the class action suit have claimed that the bodies of more than 1,000 people had been dismembered and that their bones, skin, heart valves, tendons, and other tissue had been sold to hospitals by the funeral homes representing the deceased and their grieving relatives via Biomedical Tissue Services, a business located in Fort Lee, New Jersey...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).