Sell your corpse

Fancy making some money without even trying? Why not try selling yourself? No, I’m not talking about prostitution, I’m talking about that goldmine you’re sitting on - your own lovely body. Thanks to the handy cadaver calculator, I now know that my cold flesh is worth a reasonable $70 a kilo, or $4625 for the whole carcass. While being worth twice my weight in nickel is pretty exciting, I can’t help but feel bad that a long-haired albino dwarf is worth five times more than me.

* Disclaimer - I can’t really say how accurate this is, the price seems to go up for healthy bodies with rare conditions, so I’m guessing it’s an amalgamation of estimated research value and spare body part prices. I’m pretty sure trading in human body parts is illegal in Europe, so if you’re planning to get rich quick by dying, I’d suggest making sure you pass away in a country more open-minded to this kind of entrepreneurial activity. China, maybe?

1 comment June 27th, 2007