PSA: Booby trapping is EXTREMELY illegal. The injured person WILL win a civil suit against you. No, it does not matter that they were stealing or trespassing.
Source: Law School Torts class. The only other civil case that is easier to win is when someone defiles or abuses a dead body.
not legal advice - but I believe most jurisdictions require bio-waste (like body parts) to be disposed of in specific ways to avoid the spread of diseases. So most likely no, you wouldn’t be able to do that. Unless you were maybe donating your body to science or something like that. Even then, the person/entity you were donating to would likely need to have some sort of permission from the local authorities to be keeping bodily remains.
If you're going in for surgery you can actually request to keep the body part that's getting removed. As for someone else's body part I believe there has to be written permission and the signature of the person that died to do so. Like in a will.
Probably depends on location. I work in the OR and in every state I've worked in (only 5 so far) you can clean implants (like screws, rods, etc.) and give those to the patient. You absolutely cannot give body parts to them even if they want it.
I imagine there are some very tight hoops to release parts to people; e.g. religious exemptions, must be released to a funeral home or crematory, etc. I have to think it could be a quagmire if a hospital amputates the leg of someone of certain religious sects and refuses to accommodate burial of those remains.
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u/SlowDownHotSauce 5d ago
PSA: Booby trapping is EXTREMELY illegal. The injured person WILL win a civil suit against you. No, it does not matter that they were stealing or trespassing.
Source: Law School Torts class. The only other civil case that is easier to win is when someone defiles or abuses a dead body.