OK, so in how many ways is the below-linked article headline amusing in a very sick way?

13WHAM-TV || Rochester - Recipient Of Questionable Bone Donation Reacts To Recall

“I don’t know whose it is, I know someone else was violated without permission? I didn’t want it under those conditions,” he said.

I remember once a few years ago I was at Club Marcella and almost became the recipient of a questionable bone donation, but fortunately, it was recalled.

All kidding aside, this is but one of the very serious concerns propagated by this most disgusting of stories. For those of you not following the story, a New Jersey company called Biomedical Tissue Services has been shut down for illegally harvesting body parts. Some of that harvesting and some of the grafting has been happening in the good ‘ol Greater Rochester Area.

Consider for a moment what it would feel like to have body parts in you that were stolen. Imagine the guilt that you cannot erase, even though its not your fault. What a horrible thing to have to live with, I think we should all say a prayer to whomsoever we pray that this man can find some peace. Perhaps, with luck and kindness, the family of the victim can find it in themselves to let go of thier loved one and forgive this poor man.

Beyond the guilt, there is also the problem of disease. When body parts get taken from the deceased legally, they go though a check for the most well-known pathogens and viruses so as not to pass them on. When these parts were taken, no such testing was done. Now that the body parts are in circulation, it may be difficult to know what body parts are suspect. The thing is: people are often times carriers for illnesses that they don’t exhibit any signs of having, so even an apparently healthy person can have small doses of diseases which would spread rapidly in another body.

I haven’t read that any such thing is being done, but I do wonder if anyone is doing any tests on the known-illegal body parts for diseases. It may be necessary to exhume the remains of the victimized people in order to run tests on them, which I suspect will not happen without a fight in many cases.

Already there is a case in Florida of a woman who went in for a routine cervical surgery, got bone tissue grafts from these illegal body parts, and now tests positive for HIV. There’s no way to tell if the bone was the problem, but she’s been married for 12 years, and that seems like a pretty low-risk category.

The whole thing is just sad.