[Calpernia]

>>>An “urban legend” here in the US...

Not really.

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Embalmer Granted Separate NYC Trial in Body Parts Scandal

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[MarMema]

I just had some bone grafts and rejected the cadaver grafts for this reason.

[Bokababe]

Actually the “urban legend” I was referring to — at least it was at the time — was some guy “waking up in a bathtub full of ice in a US hotel room to find that he had lost a kidney & didn’t know what happened to him”. I should have been clearer — I meant “kidnapped, involuntary live donors’ when I referred to it being an “urban legend” here in the US.