body-snatcher
Steals the deceased
A body-snatcher is someone who steals corpses, historically to sell them for medical dissection when legal cadaver supplies were scarce.
The term now extends figuratively to anyone who takes people away—a recruiter poaching employees, or in science fiction, an alien entity that replaces humans: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Historical corpse procurer
- cadaverBody for dissection
- exhumeUnbury the dead
- disinterUnbury the dead
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
cemetery · coffin · tomb · crypt · burial · shovel · digging · moonlight
Forbidden by statute
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- black-marketIllicit trading network
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
theft · underground · illicit · prosecution · trial · gallows · punishment · corruption
resurrectionist
Historical corpse procurer
graveyard · cemetery · coffin · tomb · crypt · burial · shovel · digging · moonlight · nighttime
illegal
Forbidden by statute
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- black-marketIllicit trading network
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
abduction · theft · underground · illicit · prosecution · trial · gallows · punishment · corruption · conspiracy
ghoulish
Fascinated by death grotesquely
creepy · gothic · sinister · grisly · grotesque · chilling · dread · nightmare · supernatural · haunting
dissection
Anatomical cutting and examination
cadaver · corpse · pathology · autopsy · organ · tissue · skeleton · scalpel · preservation · formaldehyde
body-snatchermortician
Funeral home professional
undertaker · funeral director · embalmer · gravedigger · cemetery caretaker
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