The MIT article Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine proposes using lab-grown brainless human bodies for spare parts and testing.
One point jumped out at me:
Recently we have even begun using for experiments the “animated cadavers” of people who have been declared legally dead, who have lost all brain function but whose other organs continue to function with mechanical assistance.
Does that make your hair stand on end too?
A month early for Halloween, and half a year early for April Fool's Day. Oh, &$%§.
ReplyDeleteOther than the brain, are we just meat?
ReplyDeleteIf so, when does the brain get declared to be just meat as well?