Is it legal or illegal for people to be selling human remains? Namely skeletons

Im just asking cause i was googling skeletons and i saw some were for sale.. real ones, not replicas.. i just think it's creepy and maybe criminal.. like were the sellers murderers or grave robbers? It just seems inappropriate and Creepy

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

A lot depends on the definition. In the US it is against the law to sell organs, as in for transplantation.

I remember the importance of dissection when I was a first year medical student, and the problem acquiring bodies. I have considered donating my body, but others feel that i am being bizarre.

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SStarfish they are fixed with formalin, the smell was awful, and my eyes would burn. One of my classmates would vomit occasionally. They were always carefully re-wrapped and enclosed in a plastic bag to keep them. At the end, they were all cremated in a way that befits a good person who died.

SStarfish ·

Oh i see.. yeah i knew an elderly lady that used to be in new york when she was younger and she mentions the unforgettable stench of the cadavers too.. but i guess a person has to learn somehow 😳 @samueltyler2

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SStarfish It was a powerful learning experience.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

Legal, I'm pretty sure, but it depends on the source, I guess. I seem to remember reading years ago that India was the source for many human skeletons that were sold?