# A question of ethics **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 6, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032 "2005-10-06T11:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![avid12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@avid12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/avid12)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/1 "2005-10-06T11:07:44Z")
I found this web shop where you can buy dead human bodies at [http://www.e-cuerpos.com/produtos.php?sub=21](http://www.e-cuerpos.com/produtos.php?sub=21) How can it be possible that such kind of filthy activities can continue freely on the internet. I’m not up for regulation on the internet but I think it is disgusting that anyone can go and buy a dead human as they would buy a pair of boxershorts!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/2 "2005-10-06T11:16:04Z")
Site doesn’t appear to be working… my guess is that it will have been a spoof, like ManBeef used to be, before the domain became a porn site. ---
**Author:** ![Erinaceus\_europaeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Erinaceus\_europaeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erinaceus_europaeus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/3 "2005-10-06T11:24:14Z")
Possible health issues aside, what’s wrong with selling bodies? I do wonder why anyone would want to buy one, though. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/4 "2005-10-06T21:29:41Z")
Where do medical cadavers come from? ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/5 "2005-10-06T22:01:59Z")
“Gross” does not equal “unethical”. Sua ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/6 "2005-10-06T22:10:08Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Where do medical cadavers come from? I think they are donated; nobody wants to find his girlfriend on a slab, because somebody thought it would be profitable to kill her and sell her to medical school ( actually happened way back when ). ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/7 "2005-10-06T23:58:18Z")
> [@Erinaceus europaeus](#): > > Possible health issues aside, what’s wrong with selling bodies? I do wonder why anyone would want to buy one, though. My thoughts, too. The corpse is dead. It doesn’t care. It has no dignity to be offended, no homesickness. It feels no pain. As long as any relatives do not object, what’s the problem? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-ethics/325032/8 "2005-10-07T00:02:26Z")
They won’t sell many- they have stiff prices.