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Book Review of Body Brokers : Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains

Body Brokers : Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
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This book reminds me a lot of The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks - which I loved - in its method of giving a lot of fact, but in a pure story lead fashion.

It takes the disgusting process of brokering human body parts and weaves a really good non-fiction story. It reveals how this business has prospered from the grave robbers of the 1800's right up to the current problems as late as 2006. This book will make you look twice at the funeral, creamation, death process. Beware! 4 stars