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Korean Man who Died in Mexico Returned -- Missing Organs:
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart.
Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover up the truth.
[...] According to the widow, Kim and other men were engaged in a fight at a Monterrey karaoke on Jan. 3, which was filmed by surveillance cameras there. In a few minutes, Kim passed out and was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"More than a week later, I received the autopsy result that says 'no external injuries.' I was dumbfounded," she wrote on the Cheong Wa Dae website.
[...] She said Mexican police are not investigating the case because Kim died ― on paper ― of natural causes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @08:55PM (4 children)
How cheap does a lab-grown organ (which doesn't require anti-rejection drugs) have to be to displace illicitly obtained organs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @09:20PM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:21PM (2 children)
It only takes an couple of EMTs/vets/medics to harvest most organs if you don't care about the donor surviving. Just keep the heart pumping as long as possible while the vet administers some anesthetics and fillets the poor shmock.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Unixnut on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:58PM (1 child)
> It only takes an couple of EMTs/vets/medics to harvest most organs if you don't care about the donor surviving. Just keep the heart pumping as long as possible while the vet administers some anesthetics and fillets the poor shmock.
Indeed, The main reason surgeons have to be specialists in order to perform surgery is so that they can do the task with high chances of survival of the patient, and with minimal side effects to the patients future quality of life.
If your intent is to kill the person and take their organs, then you really don't need a specialist. It would not surprise me to find that you could get a Butcher to do it with a little bit of training. After all they spend most of their working lives removing organs out of corpses. The victim need only be kept alive and knocked out until the containers for the organs have arrived. After which they can be killed and cut open while still fresh, at which point anyone who has worked in an abattoir could probably do it.
Unfortunately it is all too common to have people killed for their organs. Especially in war zones, where the general breakdown of society makes it a paradise for kidnapping people. Either for their organs, or the slave trade, or any other reason really. From what I remember during my studies, Israel was one of the main hubs for such organs, but someone above mentioned Sweden too. Not sure why certain countries become hubs for this kind of thing, there must be something about them that makes laundering organs easier than other places.
Also, it isn't a "new" thing. People have been murdering others for their bodies/organs for a very very long time. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders [wikipedia.org]
Unfortunately, peoples organs are worth far more than their lives are. The world is indeed a cruel place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @03:38PM
Wealth, xenophoby, individualim and law. Both places you mentioned are well above the average of their neigbours.