Horizon
Season 45 Episode 9 - How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts . When veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke died in 2004 few suspected that he was yet to uncover his greatest story. What happened to his body as it lay in a funeral home would reveal a story of modern day grave robbery and helped smash a body-snatching ring that had made millions of dollars by chopping up and selling-off over 1000 bodies. Dead bodies have become big business. Each year millions of people's lives are improved by the use of tissue from the dead. Bodies are used to supply spare parts, and for surgeons to practice on. Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts and uncovers the growing industry and grisly black market that supplies human bodies for a price.
Episodes in Season 45
How to Kill a Human Being
60 min
Total Isolation
60 min
What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
60 min
Is Alcohol Worse than Ecstasy?
60 min
How to Make Better Decisions
60 min
How to Live to be 101
60 min
Prof. Regan's Supermarket Secrets
60 min
Are we Alone in the Universe?
60 min
How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
60 min
How Does Your Memory Work?
60 min
The President's Guide to Science
60 min
How Mad Are You? (1 of 2)
60 min
How Mad Are You? (2 of 2)
60 min
Jimmy's GM Food Fight
60 min
Do You Know What Time It Is?
60 min
Allergy Planet
60 min
Where's My Robot?
60 min
