r/mildyinteresting • u/The_Dean_France • May 05 '26

humankind hiccups 😅 This is plain cruel...

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u/theemmyk May 05 '26

The body donation industry is unregulated. There was a whole series of articles about it. They use deliberately misleading language in their contracts so that most people have no idea that their loved one's body may be sold to the military. It's really messed up.

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u/kinky_skittle May 06 '26

I don't know if it's my European feelings being hurt here, but body brokers!?

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u/macho_greens May 06 '26

I think you guys invented it, when the medical colleges got going and there wasn't a legitimate source for bodies. Michelangelo knew some body brokers: he did a bunch of dissections that were probably illegal/unapproved by the monastery hospital he got them from.

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u/kazaru7 May 06 '26

A lot of old Graves in scotland I got to see had cages over them to keep people from digging them up to sell to medical institutes back in the day.

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u/kazaru7 May 06 '26

The history of Edinburgh is so fascinating, the city and the highlands hiking trails are tied for my favorite parts of Scotland!