The daughter of Alistair Cooke testified against a man accused of taking the late broadcaster's body to be harvested for organs and bones. The Rev. Susan Cooke Kittredge said her father "would have been against" donating his body to others, "He didn't like the idea of being cut up."
The other thing is that Cooke died of lung cancer which had spread to his bones, and the FDA prohibits the use of cancerous bones and organs. Prosecutors say Christopher Aldorasi noted the wrong cause of death and age for Cooke, to make it easier to sell his bones.
Aldorasi claims his boss, Michael Mastromarino, was the real mastermind. Mastromarino pleaded guilty to harvesting over 1,600 bodies from funeral homes without consent from the deceased's families and was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in jail last month. He and his associates would replace harvested bones with PVC pipes, gloves and aprons when they would returns the bodies to families.




Eew
He would replace harvested bones with gloves and aprons? How exactly does that work? Despite the fact that I think I'm about to barf would someone please tell me?
My heart goes out to them.
As their hearts have already been sent elsewhere! *RIMSHOT*
CR--I think the gloves and aprons were stuffed into the bodies to replace missing tissue (versus just being a pile of skin, it would looks sorta of like a normal corpse).
The life of a shaman is getting tougher in this modern world, what with the ban on elephant tusk, bengal teeth, and rhino horns. A little harvested bones ain't done nobody no harm.
Jen - I'm disturbed you know such things - and similarily impressed. Respect.