It's an amusing perspective, but I suspect the "corpses" are kept because it's not like literally everything inside them is fried.
It's possible that what you've seen is hoarding, or maybe the repair people just like the looks of the things and can't bear the thought of chucking them in a dumpster. But if you're talking about older electronic devices and appliances, finding new replacements for malfunctioning individual components and circuit boards can be impossible since the manufacturer won't still have them in stock.
So, to use your analogy, what you see is more like a science fiction scenario where facilities keep the bodies of people who have died in suspended animation so their undamaged organs can be transplanted as and when required.
Of course, these days, canny electronic and appliance repair people will disassemble old products and list the still-functional parts on ebay.
I find electronic devices repairers contradictory
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It's an amusing perspective, but I suspect the "corpses" are kept because it's not like literally everything inside them is fried.
It's possible that what you've seen is hoarding, or maybe the repair people just like the looks of the things and can't bear the thought of chucking them in a dumpster. But if you're talking about older electronic devices and appliances, finding new replacements for malfunctioning individual components and circuit boards can be impossible since the manufacturer won't still have them in stock.
So, to use your analogy, what you see is more like a science fiction scenario where facilities keep the bodies of people who have died in suspended animation so their undamaged organs can be transplanted as and when required.
Of course, these days, canny electronic and appliance repair people will disassemble old products and list the still-functional parts on ebay.