Dear Rabino, it was great communicating again after so many years. I got an unusual question, as I told you, I much enjoy visiting the old open market places in Mexico City and other smaller villages, sometimes you find most unusual items and I like to buy and then resell in other countries at a high profit. I found recently a stand that sold shrunken human heads the seller said he got secretively from Ecuador. They were not expensive and out of curiosity I bought one. After having a medic inspect it and giving a letter that it was indeed human, I found a client in the a Northern country that was willing to pay a considerable price and used for a conversation item for his many guest. My question is is one allowed to derive ant benefit from human bodies (non-Jewish)?
Poskim disagree whether a Gentile’s body is prohibited from deriving benefit of it and in need it is permitted. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it can in principle be sold.
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