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Body BrokersBy: Annie Cheney You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow. Matthew 24: 28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expos of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of
By: Annie Cheney“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” —Matthew 24:28
Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts.
Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these “body brokers” capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land-mine explosion tests. A single corpse used for these purposes can generate up to $10,000.
As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subject over the course of three years, when there’s that much money to be made with no federal regulation, there are all sorts of shady (and fascinating) characters who are willing to employ questionable practices—from deception and outright theft—to acquire, market and distribute human bodies and parts. In Michigan and New York she discovers funeral directors who buy corpses from medical schools and supply the parts to surgical equipment companies and associations of surgeons. In California, she meets a crematorium owner who sold the body parts of people he was supposed to cremate, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. In Florida, she attends a medical conference in a luxury hotel, where fresh torsos are delivered in Igloo coolers and displayed on gurneys in a room normally used for banquets. “That torso that you’re living in right now is just flesh and bones to me. To me, it’s a product,” says the New Jersey-based broker presiding over the torsos. Tracing the origins of body brokering from the “resurrectionists” of the nineteenth century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities.
Gripping, often chilling, and sure to cause a reexamination of the American way of death, Body Brokers is both a captivating work of first-person reportage and a surprising inside look at a little-known aspect of the “death care” world.
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Trendy and great quality
Color: Brown
Super nice quality for price, holds more than looks like and comes with lovely zip pouch for stray things or could work as wallet. Recommend tying scarf around handle for color!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Stylish and unique
Color: White
I love this bucket purse. It looks just like the purse I saw a YouTube fashion influencer using, but costs a lot less. Nice quality.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Love the look and the size
Color: Brown
Great size for a small bag. I wanted something that would carry a water bottle, phone, card case, keys and sunglasses. Just my essentials but did not want to carry my BIG bag this summer. This was a cute alternative. Not real leather but looks like it is. Quality is pretty good- wish it was real leather though, but the functionality of the staps is what really does it for me. It's been a perfect size and shape for me. Easy to dress up or down.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2025
★★★★★ 5
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Color: Brown
I absolutely love this bag and receive so many compliments on it.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2026
★★★★★ 1
NOT REAL LEATHER, but cute design.
Color: White
THIS IS NOT REAL LEATHER! Maybe they grind up leather bits and mix it with some synthetic material and call it genuine leather. But if you’re looking for full grain leather do not buy it. Though it’s a very cute design, it’s much too expensive for a synthetic bag!
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