CASH for your CORPSE !!
 

That's right, friends....!
Are your bills overdue and your credit score plummeting? Well, your lifeless body can be worth plenty to your bereaved family members! Act now! Operators are standing by!


So, over the last week or so we have had the thread asking if you're afraid to die and then the thread asking how you want to die. Now I am providing the link so you can discover how much that corpse of yours will be worth!

http://mingle2.com/cadaver-calculator

Crazy? Not at all!! Many (most? all?) medical schools require the students to buy their own corpse. Gone are the days when you could just show up for class with a bring-your-own corpse.



So how about it Mr. Fancy Porsche Driver? What are you really worth?

Me? Enough for my wife to have a nice vacation in Europe.

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $5175!

i get just 2640 USD for mine

considering that death IS inevidable
can i get my money up front?

I wonder if any serial killers will start profiling victims based on how much the bodies are worth.

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $3840!

$3725

I bet I could get WAY more through an eastern european organ broker.

I am worth $4,375 dead, but a whole lot more alive.

Aurel

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $4340!

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $5975!

Not bad... :D

Or if med students will start trolling PPOT to watch for a bargain on "lab supplies".

Grave concerns
To secure bodies for dissection, doctors and researchers began purchasing bodies, on a “no questions asked” basis, from grave robbers or resurrectionists, who exhumed the recently departed from their graves. As early as 1738, bodies were reported missing from grave sites. The public was horrified, and many Edinburgh cemeteries erected watchtowers, gates, and walls to protect the dead and keep out “body snatchers”.

In 1828, the public found out about an extremely gruesome twist that the grave-robbing business had taken, and the ensuing scandal would send the common people of Edinburgh into a frenzy of panic and rage toward the medical establishment. William Burke and William Hare came to Edinburgh from Ireland looking for work as laborers, but the men quickly decided that grave robbing was a more profitable business opportunity. The two began digging up graves and selling the bodies to medical students and researchers. One of their most loyal clients was none other than the esteemed Knox. Before long, Burke and Hare bypassed grave digging in favor of murder. Many historians argue that the duo never bothered with grave robbing and went straight to murder.

Burke and Hare strangled their victims; they perfected a method that left no obvious signs of violence on the corpses. Reportedly, Knox was not only the beneficiary of their anatomical discoveries (2–3 bodies per week); he allegedly helped the men perfect this clean manner of killing, or “burking”, a term popularized by the scandal. This contributed to the lack of evidence, which proved beneficial to the killers in the subsequent trial. Their victims were poor people living on the fringes of society, such as vagrants and prostitutes. Burke and Hare assumed that their victims would not be missed, and even if they were, that the authorities would make little effort to begin an investigation.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/mdd/v03/i08/html/10time.html

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $3565!

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $4150.00

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $4780!

Wow Kim. That is some body...It was hair, right?

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $4925! Wonder what I can do with the money? :)

I think so... plus I don't drink or smoke...

So Kim......your body is the most valuable on the Pelican OT Board? I already knew that.

So far, but wait, I am sure someone else will beat my score...

I am sure there are younger better bodies on the Board.

I thought I was the most valuable until I saw Kim's worth. You're a vegetarian, aren't you?

$5700

No but I do eat healthy... I got extra points for having long hair...