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"Diagnosis: Great idea," he said on Thursday night's show. "Prescription: Pay for healthcare by letting people sell their organs." Hodgman claimed that a healthy human kidney is worth $160,000, "And we all have two of them, like big, fat money bags nestled right here behind the spleen."

In 2007, Boyd's 16-year-old son, Luqman, was killed in a car crash. "I had already been through this two years prior," she said. Don't Miss * Public's help needed in terror fight, Napolitano says * Eighth suspect sought in N.C. terrorism case * Al Qaeda conspirator resentenced to life She said authorities took her, her daughter and pregnant daughter-in-law to the hospital, where she learned that her husband and sons had not been in a car accident and were not injured. "When we got to the hospital, they brought us around back, separated us, handcuffed us, including my eight-month pregnant daughter[-in-law], and were very rude and then told us, 'They're not dying; they're detained. And you better cooperate with us.' "

His corpse lies at the bottom of a pile of other bodies unclaimed at the Wayne County morgue. But Grandpa -- whose name has been withheld to avoid embarrassing his family -- is a special case. He has been in the cooler for the past two years as his kinfolk -- too broke to bury him -- wait for a ship to come in.