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Podcast: ICYMI
Episode: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
Description: 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 o...