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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Expect this to happen more and more often as people choose to remain childless.
Funny how the state can find you and your relatives when they _really_ want to…
My memories from a war long long ago where remains of fallen hero’s were transported back to our homeland and either released to relatives or remained at a secure facility until they were released. Many corpses didn’t have dog tags or other physical forms of identification and were still kept in a secured vault. I have no first hand knowledge of the final disposition but I feel safe in assuming that none were sold for medical disection at a university biology lab.
Depraved...
These are Veterans long since home, if they even deployed. We’re talking folks who, either by their own choice or their family’s did not maintain contact.
The Press is trying to create angst where none exists.
Twisted morals??
Dr. Frankenstein, please pick up the white courtesy phone.🙄
OMG. When humans’ lives are devalued so much you can kill them before they’re born, this is the evolution (devolution?).
Expect Soylent Green to be going on sale right after the next stolen election...
In addition to the unfortunate deceased, wrong-think sources like FR, practicing Christians, MAGA patriots, and believers of just two genders as determined physically at birth will all become instant & involuntary suppliers for the Green production...
Unethical, immoral ghouls tuned-in to $$$$$$. Someone should sue them into bankruptcy.
Soylent green, Charlton Heston, is coming true
When you get medical care, you are billed, and billed, and billed...
Only God can claim their Souls...
Exactly.
The prolife people have been saying that for years and the buying and selling of deceased humans is a riff on the notion that human life has no intrinsic value.
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