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A Dutch man is fighting for the right to sell a lamp made from his amputated leg. Two years after badly breaking his leg, an infection forced Leo Bonten to have his leg amputated above the knee. Rather than have the limb thrown in the hospital incinerator, he's turned it into a lamp. Leo said, "for me it was like light at the end of the tunnel after 2 years in and out of hospital". The leg is suspended in a cylinder of formaldehyde in a stand, with a lamp on top. He says "some people says it's grizzly some people find it really good, but it's a unique one. Its the only one in the world. I'm the only one to make a lamp out of it. Leo's hoping to sell the leg so he can pay for a state of the art prosthetic leg. He recently listed the lamp for sale on ebay, but it was was removed as it breaches the auction site's policy banning the sale of human body parts. He said, "how useful can an amputated body part be if it can give me a step in the future?". This clip is originally from Adrian Goldberg, Wednesday 24th September 2014.