Audio documentary on trade in body parts and tissues

"Donating your body, or the body of a child, to medical research is a great gift to mankind. Most of you can be recycled: your eyes, your skin, your bone or even a little piece of your heart. Now they want to grind your bones for surgical putty. Then, your dead bits will be helping a biotech company's bottomline too. Can altruism and commerce live side-by-side when it comes to giving 'the greatest gift of all'?"
Background Briefing

This excellent documentary, from Australia but with issues relevant to any country, raises many issues that perhaps we don't usually want to think about, such as what we might allow done to our bodies and those of our loved ones after death, and the link between organ donation and commerce.

Related: 'Body trade' link to child deaths and Researchers confirm claims that China kills for organs.

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