X-Message-Number: 13778
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:58:38 -0400
From: Jan Coetzee <>
Subject: What's a body worth?

What's a body worth?

              Chicago - The tissue that
              constitutes a human body has a market value of more
              than R500 000 excluding the organs, a recent edition of
              the Chicago Tribune newspaper reported.

              The total worth of all reusable tissue in a body -
              excluding the organs, which were not for sale - exceeded
              R1,6 million, tissue industry sources reportedly told the
              newspaper.

              However, since not all the tissue was normally taken
              from a single donor, the average market yield per
              cadaver was estimated around R570 000.

              With all healthy organs removed for transplantation, the
              human body yielded 130 items of marketable tissue
              which were then sterilised, cut up and packaged, the
              report said. - Sapa

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