Hannah Fry

Where would you go with it?

How would you profit off it?

Because one of the big reasons why grave robbing was such a big thing was that there was incredible demand from scientists and medics and doctors who wanted to understand how the body worked.

Dissection was this really big thing going on.

And that all changed in 1832 when they brought in a new law that says the medical dissection of unclaimed bodies was completely fine.

So if you were, I mean, it's basically it's code for extremely poor.

If you're extremely poor, then you were fair game.

Yeah, right.

Right.

So I've just looked it up because it does feel like a big contradiction, doesn't it?

That a dead body isn't property, but you can own a skeleton.

Right.

And apparently the short answer is that it becomes property when somebody applies work and skill to it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not quite.

So if you just amputate it, that doesn't meet the threshold for work and skill.

You've got to do something else to it.

You've got to feed it to beetles.

I think it definitely has to be in a special bag.