Under the dim yellow light, a variety of mummified bodies lay in pieces on the ground. It was only in this world obsessed with entertainment until death, where bodies weren't legally protected, that Bert's dissection activities alone could have sent him to prison.
Yet, thinking about it carefully, it was normal after all; in a world where everyone had an artificial body, if one didn't allow the post-mortem handling of bodies, wouldn't the merchants who recycle these artificial bodies become black marketeers? And those who sell data from artificial bodies become hackers? And those who collect medicine data, pathological features, collect...
Perhaps, in the beginning, it was illegal, but as those in need gradually lowered their standards, it naturally became legal.
