From the humorous to the horrific, the news hasn’t been good for body parts lately.
First there’s Spencer Tunick, “known worldwide f
or his photographs of massed groups of naked people,” who took a photograph of 1,700 unclothed and exposed people in back in July. Now it turns out that some enterprising members of the police force may be selling close-up individual photos taken with closed circuit television cameras.
Then there’s the less amusing news that a number of “corpses were plundered for body parts,” of course “without donor consent,” resulting in “thousands of pieces of human tissue that authorities fear could be tainted with disease.” As many as 8,000 “pieces” apparently “could be infected with the AIDS virus, syphilis and hepatitis.” Great.
Now, call me old-fashioned, but it seems to me that all of us could avoid doing things like that. Take a look at where you are in your pursuit of money. Where are you on the greed scale?
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need; there is not enough for everyone's greed." Mahatma Gandhi
