For anyone who wants an update, she got the full 20 years in a federal prison for defrauding the families.

Imagine having your body parts sold and not getting the money

I had a family member who had their body sold like this actually by this lady. We were one of the families that for cement mix instead of our loved ones ashes. We were a part of this law trial too we gave a testimony.

This story was absolutely mortifying. There's something about this one that hits harder than the tumblr bone witch or the foot tacos.

Glad to see this covered; my grandpa had this exact treatment by this woman and It caused a lot of pain to my family, specifically to my grandma who had to deal with paying for the funeral and then finding out her husband was chopped up and sold to random ass people even though my family didn’t agree to “donating” his body.

Idk why by the lady receiving someone else’s ashes mixed with garbage infuriated me the most. Like a human body deserves the same respect as coffee grounds and granola wrappers.

One of these body brokers caused a lot of fuss a few years ago when they bought an old lady’s body for “research” and sold it to the Army, who blew it up in a blast test. Her daughter was not amused.

Imagine youre a ghost, and explicitly said you didn't want to donation any organs but see this lady stealing your gold teeth and intestines. I'd be haunting the crap out of her

As someone who has worked in EMS, the rumor that if you are an organ donor we will let you die is pretty easily debunked. 1. We usually don't find out if you are an organ donor. That's what happens in the hospital and even then in a lot of countries your relatives (or whoever has PoA) has to consent to donation anyway. 2. If we knew and IF it made a difference (It doesn't. Having someone die in your care is traumatic enough that you don't want that to happen anyway) it would actually shift the balance towards better care. Once you are dead your organs start to decay, for best organ donation the body is kept alive as long as possible to keep the organs in the best possible shape. Sidenote for those that don't care about what happens to their bodies after death: Please consider informing yourself about becoming an organ donor. It's not for everyone (due to a myriad of reasons, all of them valid. No shame if you decide against it), but organ donations save a lot of lives.

A note about this, as a former biomedical student: not all donated body parts are being cut up for surgery practice, mind. Quite a lot of them end up as preserved samples to be looked at by biology students. While it was stressed to us that we needed to treat them with dignity, the body parts were only identified by the ID number of the body they originally came from. If names were preserved, we weren't allowed to know them. It was confronting, having to handle a stranger's remains. The thought that some of them might not have wanted it, and that their own family members may have even handled them without knowing, is tragic.

Fyi most science/med schools want healthy, typical bodies for donation as they are easy and simple to learn from. It makes donating old, infirm, or diseased bodies kind of difficult. It's honestly better to donate your organs, which are more likely to be put to immediate use to save multiple lives, even if they come from someone who is older, had nonstandard anatomy or health complications but otherwise good organs and tissue. Transplantation and donation has saved multiple family members' lives, including my own. My kidney is 29 years older than me, old enough to retire lol. I've had both deceased and living donor transplant organs in my extended family, and it really is the gift of life.

We have a really crazy crematorium in my city - they have museum of death and funeral culture, once had dinosaur statues and live camel on the premises for whatever reason, employees wear Nazi-ish uniforms, they run all kinds of hearse parades, midnight anti-drug performances and cosplay events, and the founder, who died just a month ago, once admitted to tasting human ashes and was also under house arrest due to allegations of him bribing hospital morgue for information about relatives of recently deceased. It's fucking Willy Wonka and Funeral Services over there.

"seminars involving cadavers in hotel ballrooms" oh god, I think I know the exact context behind this, something happened in my area like, incredibly recently and I think it may be what's alluded to here. Going to put it a bit below as though the explanation isn't particularly gruesome, and this is literally a video in regards to disrespecting the dead for a profit, still feels appropriate to me. Anyways an elderly man in my state WW2 veteran, passed from covid, he decided to donate his body to science. Instead his body is used in a pay-per-view autopsy in, as said above, a hotel ballroom. People paid between 250 to 500 for "vip seats" to watch a retired anatomy professor , the event making upwards of $10,000 in profit. It was billed as an educational event but clearly had no filters in place to weed out any dreadfully curious lookie-loos, it was pretty much a show. "There will be several opportunities for attendees to get an up close and personal look at the cadaver." Worst part is the wife was not made aware of any of this, she knew he had willed his remains to science but it wasn't until the story initially made the news she learned what happened.

this makes me want a Whang and Ask a Mortician collab, oh, the horrors you two could talk about....

Oh hey I live in Montrose. The funeral home is now a center to help pregnant women who are struggling. When all the controversy was really fresh they were allowing my church to rent space to do our services on Sunday there, and the staff kitchen was in the room she would have cut the bodies up in. We sprayed a lot of holy water in that place. Kinda poetic a building used to desecrate the dead is now used to help women bring life into the world.

My grandpa was going to be an organ donor, but everything basically exploded upon impact in a motorcycle accident. Whatever didn't explode wasn't salvageable enough to be used for donation.

I don't have much reverence for the dead, but I know other people do. It's pretty heartless to hand someone a bucket of concrete instead of the ashes

Didn't a funeral home do this in Brooklyn or Queens, too? They replaced cadaver limbs with metal or PVC pipes and sold bones, tissues, organs. Crazy.

I’ve been watching for 2+ years and I still can’t get a read on what stories this man will cover next. My minds like shooting a shotgun at internet lore while Whang is 200+ feet away sniping the one I don’t see!

A business here in Phoenix AZ was busted for this some years ago. It was called Biological Resource Center. A totally non-descript building in an industrial complex on a quiet side street. When busted, a woman's head was found sewn on aan's body, buckets of male genitalia, and numerous other nightmare scenarios. The utter disregard for people's dignity was staggering. After losingy husband this year, I can't fathom going through something so awful. I'm so fortunate to have a wonderful friend in the funeral industry. I know she & her colleagues ensured he was cared for in his final journey.

It's funny seeing this story get picked up worldwide. I'm from the area, and she used to work and live on my best friend's grandparent's ranch. He says she was always a weirdo. And yeah, that hair is pretty common on older women here.

It pleases me to know the people who would do this are extremely stupid or greedy and that’s the reason that gets them caught and punished.

Removing and selling gold teeth from cadavers is some shit straight out of a pirate story

I work in the funeral industry and I can honestly and very sadly say how scarily easy it would be to do something like this. Once the family have seen them and it’s time for the coffin to be sealed… no one would ever ever know… scary!

I've heard about this kind of thing. They'll sell your Grandma's corpse to Raytheon where they'll shoot rockets at it to test the antipersonnel capabilities

The light ashes thing immediately tipped me off. A couple years ago our dog Rainbow passed away and we had her cremated. She was a fairly average sized dog, a 60-ish pound yellow lab, and when we got her ashes back it was pretty heavy, pretty sure that bag was at least 25-30 pounds, and that's a dog, if actual human ash remains feel suspiciously light, that's an immediate red flag

Recently I’ve gotten into D&D dice collecting. Was showing my friend a set that I found cool when she showed me a set of “Necromancer’s dice”. I don’t know how I feel about it, but she said she really wants them. Being said, the reason it’s so creepy is it’s made using bone; human bone. I had seen antler bone dice, but these dice were cut from donated bodies. Being a D&D fan; she said she’d be honored to be turned into a set of dice, but I don’t know how the people who donated their body would feel about it. I think a lot of them would be upset that they were turned into some dice for a game. Literally playing with dead people. I’ll admit it’s a cool idea, but maybe a bit macabre and unethical. Think I’d feel a lot better if the donators were aware they’d be turned into dice.

This story is so bizarre to me, I literally lived 45 minutes away from the town it took place in, and my grandparents live there. Imagine if one of them had died and we got their bodies cremated there and this is what they did to the body. Absolutely hit home in a bad way.

I'm a licensed mortician, I have the associates of applied science from the dallas institute of funeral services. I have a crematory operator license as well as an embalmers license through the state of texas. That being said the gold teeth nonsense is a myth. During cremation we do 'turn overs' every so often. I crush skulls technically etc. We pull out large bone fragments and put them through a processor that grinds the material into the ashes people are used to seeing. If any gold survives the processor, it is so small and messed up that we just add it to* a metals container [ literally the thing that woman showed the previous employee ] which is filled up to a certain amount and then recycled for a small reimbursement to the crematory itself. We do this with* all surgical & precious metals that survive the 1250F heat of the primary chamber in the cremation retort. We always tell families we refuse to do it, they have to call dentists who will refuse and then they just accept that it's creepy to want grandmas teeth for only a $10 return - if that ALSO: porcelain teeth survive the initial cremation & and that is what the old lady showed to the previous employee *** I always have a little plastic container specifically for the teethies also also WTF I'm up in Denver now, working in the basement of a cemetery & I could neverrrrrrr imagine cutting apart a body. I feel bad having to raise more than one artery when I'm embalming. This lady is the talk of the death town right now up here. It's wild! This woman is why no one trusts those of us who take our job seriously and want to do it honorably :(

the upcoming Youtooz Whang figure should collaborate with a mason jar company

I love all your videos. There's this funeral home in Pocatello, Idaho that was busted with like 15 unidentified decomposing body's and multiple fetuses...... the only reason they got busted was the WHOLE neighborhood reported a horrible smell. This was at about a year ago and I think it's just going to court now.

This reminds me of the guy whose mom's corpse somehow ended up in an Army artillery proving ground without the son's consent and was blown to smithereens by various explosives.

My dad wants to donate his body to science and unless he dies right when I get my tax return, I have no way to cremate him otherwise so I looked into it where I live and they make you pay still?! Like 100-200 bucks for transport?! Plus they don’t accept bodies with certain illnesses which my dad has. Here I thought it was easy peasy to donate your cadaver.

I kind of think it is morally ok to sell body parts to someone, as long as the dead signed papers before their passing. Also as long as the reason is clearly stated for buying, like furniture.

One of my favorite things from Whang's videos is that they are mixed impeccably with the audio. Probably because he's in a band, and has a ear for it. Nonetheless, I fucking love it.

I work for a funeral home and had a family fly into our state from NJ earlier this week actually, and during the ID view the mother of the decedent, when we weren't looking (as we do not stand over shoulders during viewing) striped the blankets and sheets off of him to see the rest of his mangled body (he had died in a serious accident and it was impressive he was viewable) because she wanted to make sure we weren't chopping him up and selling parts of him?? She got really upset that she had to see her son in that state all messed up, in the nude, the coroner bag underneath the sheets made to cover him up except his face... *luckily* she was more reasonable about it than anticipated as she would rather have known he was all together (as together as he could be) and have to see him in the state he was than let it gnaw at her if he was chopped and sold and we just like.. kept his head to sallow the family to view. In other news, death is ungodly expensive and unfair to the living. Make a pre-need arrangement with your funeral home, you can plan your service and a good funeral home can guarantee their prices at the time the pre-need is made, someone saved nearly $600 on a casket via pre-need. Go to a mom and pop funeral home and not a corporate one, corporations will guilt trip you into spending more money because it's to 'honor your loved one' and are in it because it is a necessity and not because they love the work. Get upset at the cost, write to local legislators because even like how food stamps are done, government aid should be at the very least accessible when someone passes away even if it's difficult and annoying and unknown, it being available is better than not. And if you are upset at the cost, know the funeral home staff is trying their best and are not your enemy. We want to take care of your loved one because that is the least we can do. Me and all my peers in my firm are here because we love people enough to see them off to their final resting place.

I'm kind of surprised Caitlin Doughty hasn't covered this one yet

I'd have no issues with having my bones sold after I'm no longer using them, or any organ for rhat matter. But I demand royalties to be given to anyone close to me.

I used to live in a town with a large university hospital. Selling body parts was illegal like in most other places But if the university auctioned off a bunch of retired medical specimens that was fine. Then if someone bought an auction lot and put it in their oddity shop, also perfectly fine

Just imagine walking through a parking lot all tired after work. Gonna go home and just rest your tired head.. Then you walk by a guy watering the plants, but wait.. there is no plants ! It's someones grandpa.

I'm proud to say after rating this video 5 stars I chose the "heartwarming" option.

Holy shit. I usually find your videos like 2 weeks after they're posted. YT algorithm is ON FUCKING POINT today!!!

It's jarring hearing this story in the context of "crazy internet news." My dad's cremation was handled by Megan Hess, and she provided the whole service for free (I was 18 and just started college at the time and she said that "a child shouldn't have to bury their parents so young"). We never got his ashes tested because we weren't contacted for being potentially affected during the investigation, but a part of me is admittedly curious.

My mother was affected by something like this though it happened in Detroit. The hospital used parts from a funeral home doing this. She had to get a blood test regularly for a few years because an AIDS patient was one of the people they sold parts from. Such a messed up thing to do to people.

Shipped em straight to Arby’s

Just wanna say, cremation is waayyyy more expensive than people realize. My mom died in April 2020, had her cremated, as per her request.. Got the bill and it was $5,000. I STILL OWE ON THE BALANCE.. ugh. And the funeral home will not give me her ashes until the bill is paid off. They told me to take out a loan. Can’t get one. Everyone one is struggling and I just don’t have the money. And they won’t accept payments, it has to be paid in full. Very upsetting and distressing.

This happened to my step dad's step dad. Turns out his ashes were cremated animal parts. FBI found his arm in some third world country. Can't remember. The funeral was under investigation for awhile.

i’m working toward a degree in mortuary and funeral science. this is sickening. i couldn’t imagine doing this to a family or having it done to my own. my heart goes out to everyone affected by this awful woman.

"It's not illegal to have 80's hair" Damn right it's not.

I read a piece of dark fiction years ago about a veteran whose cremains contained a rather large chunk of threaded steel, allegedly traced to a mortar bomb. And his family was absolutely astonished that he had lived and worked with this huge piece of steel embedded in him without a word of complaint. Of course it was nothing of the sort; rather, a medical student had removed the man's femur and replaced it with a length of water pipe. As fiction, the story imparted a definite frisson. As fact, it is a horrible betrayal of trust to do such a thing. And for the families affected by this case and other, similar, cases, I really have no words beyond an acknowledgement of the heartbreak that would accompany the discovery of the truth.

i'm an organ donor. but the idea of someone taking my organs _without_ consent is horrifying... i can't imagine what these families went through.

As a aspiring mortician (embalming, specifically), I would NEVER do this. Embalming is not some fun job where you can just cut corners. It is a medical career involving innocent, grieving people. This is absolutely insane.

Here in Tennessee we have a "body farm" at UT where they put bodies in several different ways seeing how decomp would go for the forensics department

this is just sickening.. and my god one of the victims’ father was part of the famous screaming eagles 101st airborne division in ww2 who spearheaded operation overlord, operation market garden, battle of the bulge in bastogne, liberating the netherlands, d-day as a whole, liberating kaufering, the list goes on.. band of brothers is about them and it’s one of the best shows i think i’ve ever seen in my entire life. how disrespectful and heartbreaking for all families involved 💔😔

Honestly, I've already been thinking of getting myself off of the organ donation list. Over the years after I initially got my license I've kept on hearing about crap like this story that has made me get to the point I rather be just cremated. The amount of profits that are made from donated/"donated" organs just makes me extremely uncomfortable.

This Ask a Mortician video is really weird... Why does Caitlin have a moustache?

Whang's mom is right about that check box on the back of your ID. I had a cancerous tumor removed from my eye when I was a baby, but Sloan Kettering tried to convince my family to radiate and remove my eyeball anyway because they wanted to study it. Luckily my parents started arguing and were too preoccupied yelling at each other to give consent. Research is big business.

If you have "Donor" on your DL or state ID, it is only valid (in the U.S.) when you go to website to complete the form to be either a full-body donor or an organ donor (in case you don6eant to be a ballistics dummy or an ottoman, etc). I've had 6 gold teeth for ages which belonged to my mom, dad and grandma which were extracted both before and after death. So much yikes.

The hotel ballroom! Are you talking about what happened here in Portland, where some group sold tickets to people for hundreds of dollars to witness an autopsy like it's the 1880s. Turns out the family had donated that person for medical research. This was during COVID. Edited to add: there really is no good association with the name Koch.

Dude I’m a local from Montrose, that lady is soulless and brings shame to my small town:(

I can't help but feel it would be more profitable and less risky to just run a brothel for necrophiliacs.

The saddest part is those cement mix sent in place for the cremated ashes may not even be enough to build and perch up a tombstone.

This sounds like an inspiration for a Metal Album. "Funeral Home Garage Sale" sounds like a sweet album.l

This lady is one of the reasons I forbid my family to cremate me because I would like my family to know for certain where my body ended up. I'm not as attached to my organs though so honestly I wouldn't care if my organs themselves got donated and saved someone, but I would like my family to at least know this is what was happening rather than it being a surprise.

Hey Whang! I mentioned this in older videos but I was wondering if you've ever heard about a very graphic video from...2008?2007? about a guy from an asian? country trying to jump from a bridge to the water but he misses the water and he hits his face on concrete, the whole video was low quality and recorded in an old phone obviously, but i remember the video also having like, a warning screen in three languages, loud and unsettling music and there being a second part to the video where the doctors recorded what the guy face ended up like (it was split in half, all super graphic) I remember this video being shared EVERYWHERE back then including uploads to facebook and youtube, I also remember theories of people saying the second part of the video was from a shotgun accident, I cant remember much because I was like 12 at the time that video got viral (viral to what was 2007-09 not today's meaning of viral) Im curious if it was ever found out waht happened with the guy or his identity or anything on the matter lol I do not dare google this as an adult, I dread whatever result I might get, I cannot stand graphic stuff

"Hotmail haircut" had me in stitches. The rest though was absolutely appalling. (Not the video, which was great! But the story.) I can't help but think though that she never would have made the money she had without the buyers. I hope law enforcement went after them, too.

I used to work in a morgue and I remember at one point, one of the donation programs we received cadavers & parts from for disposal fell under investigation. For what, I don't know, but I do know I would often be doing cremation disposal on groups of arms, legs, heads, etc. It was wild. One of the removal techs told me that on a pickup at that facility, they recieved 7 torsos. Said the room looked like something out of Silent Hill- just a room with a bunch of torsos on tables. He asked the tech working there what happened to the arms and legs and the tech just responded with: "I got a better question, what happened to their heads?!" Now, I just chalk that up to industry humor, but I never found out why that donation program was put under investigation. Most likely just some lawsuit from a donor's family tbh.

It feels so weird seeing a story you actually remember happening show up here. I live about an hour away from Montrose and i've been through there on family trips. North of Montrose there's a cluster of towns with a total population of almost 100k (Grand Junction and the related towns like Fruita, Mack, Clifton, Palisade) where I live. At the time my family paid for the local paper and when I would wake up in the morning to get ready to walk to the bus, I'd absentmindedly look at the front headlines. For about a week as the police investigated this lady and her business, she'd show up on the front page with yet another article detailing whatever horrifying shit the police found the day before. Glad to hear she got hit with the full 20 years.

It's extra terrifying when an old morbid tales from the Internet ended with a minor update that took place in the same year you're watching that video.

Don't donate your organs unless your comfortable with your remaining family being charged for the removal surgery fees.

My grandmother's body was unfortunately chopped up and sold in a Brooklyn funeral home

My mother donated her remains to a reputable organization to be used for research. They offered to explain to us what research she would be helping (not what they would do with her remains, just the types of research) and we chose not to know. They picked up her remains from hospice, they were dressed professionally and respectfully. They prayed with us and thanked us and gave us a prayer blanket. They returned her ashes to us and only charged for the shipping. They were so respectful and kind and made a difficult day a little easier for us. This so called funeral home treated people like trash. I can’t imagine the pain they caused to these families. They caused so much trauma at what is already a traumatic time, I hope they get treated like trash during their prison stay.

As soon as I started watching this the first thought I had was "I have a rare disease. What would happen to someone if they received my organs?"

This reminds me of the reason I'm banned from owning a shovel.

Yeah check out the scandal at the body donation center at Paris Descartes university in france. Same kind of story but with gross negligence and lack of budget in my old university. I remember that a lot of people knew there were bodies rotting away in the basement, some getting eaten by rats and some getting sold but it took an investigative journalist to finally break the story out. The basement of this uni was weird.

As someone in school to be a funeral director and embalmer, this is super freaky but super interesting

"that's a hotmail haircut if I've ever seen one" why does this make perfect sense

So Whang has a mother. I thought he just spawned somewhere at random.

Update-Hess received 20 years and her mother received 15, for those that are curious.

This happens a lot in veterinarian's places, I'm not surprised it also happen with people People are awful

I totally forgot about this story,when I saw the notification I thought it was about the funeral homes in NY/NJ where they were taking skin and knees and stuff like that and bones and putting PVC to replace the bones.The funeral home business is crazy.

Should have hit them with the books!! They just "changed" their plea to guilty 😔 isn't it a crime to lie in court

The zombies are my neighbors music in the background makes me respect you even more.

“Hey we’re running low on concrete and need some fast” “Alright let me grab grandpa’s ashes”

Side note: What's really really frustrating is that even if you are someone who is open minded about selling off our body part's, or something, we don't have systems that allows us "open minded poor people" to utilize this option to help assist with the burden of funeral and death expenses. We are all forced to pay death amenities and these slime balls find all sorts of ways to make tons and tons of money off of already poor people who had to be forced to pay money for crappy shady bullspit and it pretty much sums up capitalism abuse 101 in a nutshell 🥜🐿️

Whang could have his own children to work in his sweartshop to make his t-shirts.

Bro that Big Boss Man segment lives in my head rent free. I can't hear the word "bastard" without thinking of it.

I can confirm the demos in the hotel ballrooms. Working in a hotel as an AV technician, I sat in on more than one operating sound and video. They would do demo operations on things like arms and legs. And it wasn't a medical facility, it was a product demonstration by a company that manufactures high tech medical equipment, like surgical robots They would come in with coolers of parts. It was always weird.

Megan Hess looks like every aunt from the 90’s rolled into one

Lol my mom says the same thing about having the organ donation on your drivers license!!! 😂🤣😂

The rare extremely serious Whang video. The depravity of some people, all in the name of profit.

I'm actually from the neighboring town to Montrose, this was massive news here. You can imagine my surprise watching this funny Whang! Guy talking about dead babies and dog fuckers then seeing a local story in my recommendation

I used to be like hell no you can't grow organs in a lab. After hearing these stories...I'm like why aren't you growing organs yet!! 😆

I think that they could have made a lot of money just sticking to voluntary donations and being a middle women on the funerary to research track, but no, they had to get greedy, this reminds me a case in my country, several families were given non human ashes, but the bodies were stuck in the funerary house, they started to rot and smell, guess demand was not that high.

Appreciate the Zombie Ate My Neighbors track with this tale.

I knew this woman she took care of my deceased father and my childhood friend. She was very kind to my widowed mother. I went to school with her kid and he was funny

Man the funeral home business is corrupt. I really recommend the channel "ask a mortician" for really insightful videos on it. But i don't think I've even heard of this before now.

See, this is why a degree in Mortuary Sciences is required in literally every other state in the Union.

I could have swore there was another story similar to this but they were like selling them as projects or something and then it was found out years later probably before the internet though. I'm definitely have to look through my old books on the subject

Bossman/Big Show's Dad also makes Kane/Katie Vick come to mind.