Do Your Loved One’s Ashes Contain All of Your Loved One?
If you answered, “Yes,” you may want to rethink your response. Though it’s horrifying to contemplate that some of your loved one’s body parts may be missing, the truth can be more shocking: They may have been stolen and sold in an unregulated, global marketplace.
Why would anyone steal body parts? And, who would commit such a heinous act? The answer is that the human body is a valuable commodity like precious metals and oil. There is money to be made by a vast network of buyers and sellers, with many operating in an illegal, underground network of body merchants. The profiteers in this multi-billion dollar body industry are mainly hidden.