Awhile back I saw a really fascinating rerun of Bones where Dr. Brennan’s curiosity led to discovering an underground human organ trafficking program. It all started when Bones was introduced to a teenager who was dying of mesothelioma. Since mesothelioma virtually always appears in people who have been exposed to asbestos, and virtually always people who are past their teenage years, she poked into it and discovered that this teenager had received a bone graft some time ago that was riddled with mesothelioma. Furthermore there were other people who received other “parts” from this donor’s body, all of which were riddled with mesothelioma cancer.
It definitely got me to thinking. There’s such a story in that, in the world of illegal organ trafficking. It’s scary, in a way, because it’s real. None of us know what tomorrow holds, and it’s always possible that something could happen tomorrow that would cause us to need an organ transplant or a bone graft or something like that.
Fiction always explores reality.
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