A story about funeral home misdeeds appeared in Wired, of all places. It's bad enough to mislead customers about what one is doing with the remains they hand over, but much worse to lie about the medical condition of those remains when selling them for medical re-use (!).
The Telegraph has more on the specific misappropriation of Alistair Cooke's remains.
This Gothic as everyday life meme might be worth a full-time effort...
Time for an Errol Morris documentary. He's always wanted to do one on Einstein's brain, which has its own epic story of thievery, flight, and biomedical chicanery.
Who was it who wrote a story about organleggers?
Posted by: Gardner | December 27, 2005 at 08:26
Are you thinking of Larry Niven, Gardner? I just came across the meme in Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.
Organlegging is a popular theme - it has long legs, as they say in marketing.
Posted by: Bryan | December 27, 2005 at 10:23