ICYMI: Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, we’re revisiting one of our early favorite episodes from August 2021 about selling bones on TikTok. In the episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher try to figure out if it’s legal to buy and sell human remains. They’re joined by Tanya Marsh, a professor at Wake Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law, to find out what the legal system says about the human bone market, the ethical questions surrounding such a market, and why we still have rights even after we die. If you’d like to know more about the history of the human bone trade, check out this video, “Can You Legally Buy a Real Human Skeleton?” Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Subscribe to Slate Plus at http://slate.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	not, I've got a few little treats in store for y'all.
0:39.5	The first is that I can finally say we are so, so, so close to finally making a co-host hire.
0:49.6	I truly cannot express how grateful I am for y'all sticking around for this transition period
0:55.5	that went longer than I think any of us really anticipated. But the new ICYMI
1:02.1	era is imminent and I cannot wait to share it with y'all. The second little tree is today's
1:08.6	episode, which is a favorite from our early days.
1:11.6	I know it seems like years ago that we all discovered that a man was selling human bones on TikTok,
1:18.9	and that's because it was years ago. And he's still doing it. So in honor of that, we are
1:26.2	rerunning our August 2021 episode. Someone is selling human bones on
1:31.9	TikTok, which featured not only our dearly departed Madison Malone Kircher, but also features
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