I expect the “based on a true story” movie version to involve brains taken from live victims. Medics Took Thousands of Brains Without Consent:
British pathologists removed the brains from tens of thousands of human corpses over a period of 30 years without the permission of the victims’ relatives, the government acknowledged on Monday.In a sinister reminder of scandals in the late 1990s, when hospitals were found to have secretly kept the hearts of dead children for research purposes, the government said the illicit removal of brains had been “widespread in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.”
It said the true scale of the scandal would never be known because records from the 1970s were sketchy and many of the brains had been used for research or destroyed in the intervening years.
But the government’s Inspector of Anatomy, Jeremy Metters, told a news conference that of 30,000 brains in storage in 2000, when a major count of stored organs was carried out, more than half were probably taken without permission.
“Between 50 and 70 percent of those were not taken by consent,” he said.