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How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?

Science series. A modern medical revolution has fuelled a market for body parts which has seen a cadaver sell for as much as $250,000.

Science series. A modern medical revolution has fuelled a market for body parts which has seen a cadaver sell for as much as $250,000. Horizon investigates the booming industry that supplies human bodies. It has spawned a grisly black market trade in stolen body parts which includes among its victims the veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke. After his death in 2004 his body was taken by a body snatching ring.

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