According to the BBC, two-thirds of all transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners.
Remember Bodies…The Exhibition? When it was in Seattle in 2006, a PI reporter, gazing at a flayed corpse, noted that no one knew his individual identity.
What is known is that he was from China, and when he died his body went
unclaimed — unclaimed, that is, until the dissectors at a Chinese
university took him into their care and the show’s promoters took him
on the road.
What is known? Sorry, Charlie. How the government got hold of these bodies is not known. When it’s an exhibition of corpses out of China, all bets are off. If these corpses just happened to die from unnamed causes, it’s lucky for the show’s promoters that so many young and fit keel over in China’s streets. The old and infirm wouldn’t look nearly as good in the spotlight.
This is the equivalent of putting people on display at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in 1909 in Seattle. Yet the exhibit of Chinese corpses did a brisk business among the educated set in Seattle a few years back. It would have been good for the Museum Studies students at the UW at that time or the Burke Museum curators to take a stand on a contemporary issue like this rather than only focus on past questionable behavior as they have done by taking a stand on the AYP a 100 years later.