Europe's Profiteering from Plague Deaths
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Foreign doctors were horrified by Europe's plague procurement methods. Cities literally
auctioned off dead bodies to the highest bidder for mass burial. Venetian merchants
sold plague victim belongings in markets while corpses rotted nearby. They hired criminals
to collect bodies because nobody else would do it. One Persian physician wrote that Europeans
treated human remains like livestock at auction. The desperation was so extreme they
started paying grave robbers to steal bodies from other cities when their own burial grounds
overflowed. Death had become Europe's most profitable business.
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