Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?

Today, we’re revisiting one of our early favorite episodes from
August 2021 about selling bones on TikTok. In the
episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone
Kircher try to figure out if it’s legal to buy and sell human
remains. They’re joined by Tanya Marsh, a professor at Wake
Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law, to find out
what the legal system says about the human bone market, the ethical
questions surrounding such a market, and why we still have rights
even after we die. If you’d like to know more about the history of
the human bone trade, check out this video, “Can You Legally Buy a
Real Human Skeleton?” Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and
Derek John. Subscribe to Slate Plus at http://slate.com/icymiplus
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