"Donated corneas from the young girl killed in the Arizona mass shooting have saved the eyesight of two children, the girl's father told The Associated Press on Monday.
John Green said the Donor Network of Arizona told him and his wife about the successful transplants."
AP
OK, I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that I'll bet others are thinking. It's great that the body of the little girl that was killed in Tucson is able to be used to help others but I don't need a daily update as she's parted out.
Let's show a bit of class here.
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According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, more than a million bone parts are used in transplants every year. In no other country is it possible to make so much money with body parts. If a body were disassembled into its individual parts, then processed and sold, the total proceeds could amount to $250,000 (€176,000). For a single corpse! The US tissue industry generates total revenues of about $1 billion a year, says journalist Martina Keller, a co-author of this article and the author of the German book, "Cannibalized: The Human Corpse as a Resource." Read this great Article from Der Spiegle.
ReplyDeleteInside a Creepy Global Body Parts Business
By Martina Keller and Markus Grill
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,645375,00.html
Can you imaging the uproar if a Catholic/Protestant priests were arrested for this?
Organ Traficking Rabbis arrested in Crime Ring
http://www.theage.com.au/world/organ-trafficking-rabbis-arrested-over-massive-crime-ring-20090724-dv50.html