The Great Kidney Caper: Can you insure your body parts?

The Great Kidney Caper: Can you insure your body parts?

What do a Newark, N.J.-based mortician, a California-based businessman, and a dentist and his seven mortician-cronies from the East Coast all have in common? They have all ravaged funeral homes and medical facilities for body parts, engaging in multi-million dollar schemes to sell them on the body part black market. But this epidemic is nothing new, and its morbid presence can be seen in gruesome news stories from across the globe. The World Health Organization…

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