“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” - Matthew 24:28
Body Brokers is a book revealing the shocking world of the lucrative business of procuring, buying and selling human cadavers. The book introduces you to many characters who made a profit on the selling of human remains. It started off as using cadavers to help doctors learn the anatomy of the human body and to advance science. Now it is all about making a profit. The book revealed that those who donate their bodies to science are many times dismembered and sold for thousands of dollars. Humans are no more than products and commodities like a car. Throughout the book, the author explains how there have been attempts to try and regulate the business but it always fails. …show more content…
As a forensic autopsy technician I can relate to this. When I go to work I do not see “dead bodies”, if I did I probably would not be able to do this job. You look at it as walking into a meat market and cutting up meat because that is kind of what it is. When I have a burnt victim it smells like cooked BBQ, and when you start to do the autopsy it looks like you are cutting a brisket. This helps with the emotional state. This helps me walk into work, do my job, and leave with a clear conscience. You cannot be an emotional person in this line of work; it just doesn’t fit. People ask me all the time how can you stand the smell? Well I have been doing this long enough to where I actually smell nothing; even when it's a decomposed body. Another question asked, how do you handle it? Like I mentioned before I look at the person as “meat” and know that I have to just do my job. I have always been the type of person to be able to turn off emotion so this job was made for someone like me.
This book was so interesting to me because in my place of work; we could never be able to sell off bodies that easily. When it comes to prepping a body for an autopsy, every step is written down and recorded. And once the autopsy is done then they are handed off to the funeral homes. Now that I have read this book I will now wonder if those individuals will make it into this lucrative
Body Brokers is a book revealing the shocking world of the lucrative business of procuring, buying and selling human cadavers. The book introduces you to many characters who made a profit on the selling of human remains. It started off as using cadavers to help doctors learn the anatomy of the human body and to advance science. Now it is all about making a profit. The book revealed that those who donate their bodies to science are many times dismembered and sold for thousands of dollars. Humans are no more than products and commodities like a car. Throughout the book, the author explains how there have been attempts to try and regulate the business but it always fails. …show more content…
As a forensic autopsy technician I can relate to this. When I go to work I do not see “dead bodies”, if I did I probably would not be able to do this job. You look at it as walking into a meat market and cutting up meat because that is kind of what it is. When I have a burnt victim it smells like cooked BBQ, and when you start to do the autopsy it looks like you are cutting a brisket. This helps with the emotional state. This helps me walk into work, do my job, and leave with a clear conscience. You cannot be an emotional person in this line of work; it just doesn’t fit. People ask me all the time how can you stand the smell? Well I have been doing this long enough to where I actually smell nothing; even when it's a decomposed body. Another question asked, how do you handle it? Like I mentioned before I look at the person as “meat” and know that I have to just do my job. I have always been the type of person to be able to turn off emotion so this job was made for someone like me.
This book was so interesting to me because in my place of work; we could never be able to sell off bodies that easily. When it comes to prepping a body for an autopsy, every step is written down and recorded. And once the autopsy is done then they are handed off to the funeral homes. Now that I have read this book I will now wonder if those individuals will make it into this lucrative