By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-28 22:02:31 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:28:23
1 day ago
Horror as veterans' bodies are carved up and sold for parts without families' permission: 'Heads went for $649, torsos for $900 and legs for $341'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 09/28/2024 | Ruth Bashinsky
Posted on 09/28/2024 1:52:14 PM PDT by DFG
Modern-day grave robbers in Texas have seized unclaimed bodies belonging to veterans and sold their limbs for profit without the consent or knowledge from their grieving family members.
Victor Carl Honey, 58, a dedicated Army veteran, who struggled with mental illness, died in September 2022 of heart failure.
Honey was among the 2,350 people whose remains were sent to the body donation program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort-Worth.
However, a month after his death, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Officer deemed Honey's body 'unclaimed' after they said phones for relatives were disconnected even though his ex-wife and two adult children were living in the state.
Honey's body was kept in a freezer before it was cut up and shipped piecemeal across the country.
His torso was sold to a medical education company for $900; his right leg shipped to a Swedish medical device manufacturer for $341; the bones from his skull were sent to the U.S. Army for $210 for military training purposes.
During NBC News' bombshell investigation, it was also revealed that Honey's corpse was not the only one sold to science in the Dallas-Fort-Worth region; hundreds of other corpses were collected from nursing homes, hospital beds and homeless encampments - and sold on the open market.
Honey's body parts were also sent to medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific and Medtronic - used for scientific research and the testing of new products.
According to the report, once the medical groups and others were finished using the unclaimed bodies' remains, they were cremated, buried or scattered at sea - despite some families still looking for their loved ones.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: biotechnology; bodies; bodydesecration; chopshop; corpses; dallascounty; desecration; disabled; elderly; funeralpractices; funerarypractices; ghouls; homeless; hospitals; limbs; medical; medicalexaminer; nursinghomes; pharmaceutical; research; skulls; texas; unclaimedbodies; veterans
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1 posted on 09/28/2024 1:52:14 PM PDT by DFG
To: DFG
To: DFG
don’t expect anything to change. when half your country vote for democrats, something is deeply wrong already.
3 posted on 09/28/2024 1:58:20 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
To: DFG
Em…awful. But their families were apparently not grieving
4 posted on 09/28/2024 1:59:49 PM PDT by stanne
To: stanne
“But their families were apparently not grieving”
sounds like because they were never contacted which would have giving them the change to grieve
5 posted on 09/28/2024 2:05:26 PM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
To: DFG
While the selling of body parts is an odd twist, the state’s handling of the “unclaimed” is pretty common.
Saw an article year’s ago concerning NYC Hart Island where the indigent are buried. Since NYC insists on burial in a fairly quick time, there have been a lot of cases of people’s spouses or what not buried in the mass graves there because a contact could not be reached.
6 posted on 09/28/2024 2:06:37 PM PDT by fruser1
To: DFG
“They will make merchandise of you . . .”
2 Peter 2:3
See also Planned Parenthood’s baby parts, fetal growth media and adrenochrome businesses.
7 posted on 09/28/2024 2:08:31 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
To: DFG
Well, at least they weren’t cats and pond ducks |s
8 posted on 09/28/2024 2:10:16 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
To: fruser1
During the Covid scam a lot of people could have been sold as unclaimed. No visiting no gathering for funerals and such. Dollars already being paid for cases reported and even more for reporting a death. We The People actually had a wanted dead bounty on US. And it wasn’t pistolaroes that were after US.
9 posted on 09/28/2024 2:15:17 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
To: DFG
I think this was a sub-plot from the original “Max Headroom” show. There was a lively (ahem) trade in human body parts.
To: Qwapisking
11 posted on 09/28/2024 2:21:06 PM PDT by ladyjane
To: ladyjane
Harvard has a morgue?
Did they bring back dueling, or what?
12 posted on 09/28/2024 2:23:55 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
To: PLMerite
Their medical school has a morgue and many people donate their bodies for medical research. The manager and his wife apparently sold the bodies. I’m not sure how they ever caught them.
13 posted on 09/28/2024 2:29:32 PM PDT by ladyjane
To: DFG
Kinda makes one consider cremation.
14 posted on 09/28/2024 2:31:21 PM PDT by xp38
To: DFG
15 posted on 09/28/2024 2:38:12 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: DFG
So selling body parts of dead veterans is appalling but Planned Parenthood selling baby parts is permissible.
To: xp38
We Catholics are plan these things out. Get a grave. Buy it. Maintain a relationship with one’s family. If you’re gone for a few days someone makes an wffort to find you. 30 days? That’s a long time. If we have everything paid out and insurance with a will and instructions then it’s no more than a day off for the relatives and associates. Throw in hors d oevres and a Bloody Mary and people will claim you
Cremation or no cremation
Of course this government and the medical industry is going to sell an unclaimed body.
These are the people that set repeat murderers free. This medical industry is pro abortion and they thrive on sick people
17 posted on 09/28/2024 2:40:09 PM PDT by stanne
To: DFG
Bullshit horror story. The families didn’t claim the bodies, probably to avoid the cost of burial. Now some ambulance chasing shysters are going to make money on the same bodies.
18 posted on 09/28/2024 2:49:45 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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