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by boomboomsubban 877 days ago
Would your opinion change if the parts were taken after the students used them? These parts were already "dissected," if they still needed to be used presumably the professors would notice they were missing.
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Yes??? Unless the person in question agreed for you to sell their remains for personal gain, it's pretty messed up to do so.

If one of my loved ones decided to donate their body to science, and their skull ended up being sold to some creep who got off on having a human skull, I'd be pretty irate.

yes-with-three-questions isn't a very confident answer. if you're confident, why put a question mark after your words? Is that like the internet-comments-section Bat Symbol to summon others from your tribe to back up your less-than-confident position?
As a fully fluent English speaker, I read those extra question marks as astonishment that you'd even need to ask such a question and that the answer is seemingly obvious. And I'd agree with the commenter's sentiment. There's no question in their reply.
Lol my opinion would not change. The donors consented to body donation for science (often to a specific institution with certain conditions) which is a huge kindness because medical students doing dissections is not the dream for many of us. It is completely different to have your organs etc shipped off to god knows where without your consent.