Rejected petition Ban sales of human remains without proof of consent and repatriate the remains of those who did not
Human remains are being sold to private collectors within Wales. These sales are legal, regardless of whether the person whose body it is consented. Many claim they are ethically sourced from medical suppliers, however many remains in medical collections come from racialised people who died in conflicts related to colonialism, or were graverobbed. In neither case would they have consented to being bought and sold today. Private collectors shouldn't be able to own the bodies of racialised people.
More details
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-museums-rushed-fill-their-rooms-bones-180958424/
https://www.livescience.com/human-bone-trade-facebook.html
https://www.wired.com/2007/11/ff-bones/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2021/10/09/tiktok-jonsbones-human-remains-wall-spines/
https://historycollection.com/10-bone-chilling-facts-about-the-skeleton-trade/9/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/aboriginal-bones-being-returned-australia
https://www.museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog/2020/11/17/the-colonial-origins-of-medical-teaching-skeletons
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