When I started to look at the way medical waste was handled, I was pleasantly surprised to realize medical waste is heavily regulated. Not just a little bit regulated, but, heavily regulated.

Go figure.

Except, of course, unless it is regard to a dead body. It is absolutely ghoulish.

October 24, 2017
By Brian Grow and John Schiffman

Las Vegas – The company stacked brochures in funeral parlors (click here) around Sin City. On the cover: a couple clasping hands. Above the image, a promise: “Providing Options in Your Time of Need.”

The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one’s body to “advance medical studies.”

Outside Southern Nevada’s suburban warehouse, the circumstances were far from comforting. In the fall of 2015, neighboring tenants began complaining about a mysterious stench and bloody boxes in a Dumpster. That December, local health records show, someone contacted authorities to report odd activity in the courtyard.

Health inspectors found a man in medical scrubs holding a garden hose. He was thawing a frozen human torso in the midday sun.

As the man sprayed the remains, “bits of tissue and blood were washed into the gutters,” a state health report said. The stream weaved past storefronts and pooled across the street near a technical school....