• tocopherol [any]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    Is there an industry for blood? This makes me think of how earlier medical schools would buy bodies that grave robbers stole, not asking too many questions about the origin because they needed cadavers for students. I have comprehended a new horror, a sort of enslavement where you are forced to give blood repeatedly.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      18 days ago

      I have comprehended a new horror, a sort of enslavement where you are forced to give blood repeatedly.

      Don’t look up blood plasma donations and how a lot of people in the US need to donate just to afford to live.

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        18 days ago

        Oh, right, I kind of forgot for a second haha, there is a massive above ground market for blood. I know people who have sold their plasma, I only ever donated blood though to a local organization. I think there were some around that would pay you for blood rather than plasma but I haven’t heard of that as much.

    • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      H.H. Holmes would sell the skeletons of his victims. He also had an elaborate murder hotel with secret entrances which he constructed by repeatedly hiring and firing workers which let him get away with not paying them but also so he’d be the only one who knew the true layout