South Korea Cracks Down on Pills Containing Human Flesh

Oh my goodness, kids! I have heard possibly the craziest story ever just a few minutes ago. Apparently in Korea, officials have confiscated some pills from people that are made with human baby flesh. These pills are supposedly for "stamina," whatever that is supposed to mean. Something dirty, no doubt. Dead Baby Pills? Here's the link from The Telegraph, and another article from mirror news, so I am totally not making this up.

What on earth? Apparently some manufacturers in China have taken the corpses of dead babies and made them into pills to help with "stamina". I have no idea what on earth you'd need human flesh in capsule form for, much less what they're meaning to imply with "stamina".

Now, for me, I find it's hard enough to get regular medications in this country, much less actually try something illegal. Some of you may know this and some may not, but I've been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis for about seven years now. I take a muscle injection every week to help treat it, and I feel like because of this medication, I've been doing quite well.

You wouldn't know I was sick to look at me, because of this medication. Yet this medication is outrageously expensive, and with insurance it would cost me about $10,000 a year. That's not a typo. With co-pay assistance programs, the payment is more manageable, but you have to jump through about seven hoops with each company you deal with in order to get the help you need to get the medication you need.

And that's for something essential. Yet there are all sorts of non-essential, easy to get medications for things like weight loss, "stamina", and a host of other things that people just want medication for. I don't claim to know anything about anything, trust me. It just seems like people these days will take a pill for anything but what they need.

What do you think? How far should we go for comfort in terms of medication?