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

humankind hiccups 😅 This is plain cruel...

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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/StinkButt9001 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

There's a lot of demand for dead bodies. It's a fairly taboo subject but the reality is there's lots of research that is slow or impossible because it's not easy (or cheap) to obtain human bodies to work with.

And sometimes those bodies get blown up in a chair instead lol

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u/fapperontheroof May 06 '26

A lot of medical advancement was achieved by utilizing ill-gotten cadavers, right? Fascinating stuff.

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u/Darius_Rubinx May 07 '26

Since the beginning, yes. Grave robbers were all over the damn place.