As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones

[Phys251]

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.

www.nbcnews.com

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses.

This is batshit crazy. What was the UNT Health Science Center thinking??

 

[BirdinHand]

Wow…that’s pretty damn egregious.


Personally, I encourage individuals that do not have religious or personal beliefs otherwise to be organ donors and to donate their bodies to science and education when they no longer need them and have passed.

But for any organization to simply take bodies and do this to them without consent is WAY beyond the line.

Individuals that do not have family, etc should be ASKED THEIR WISHES as to what they would like to happy to their body after death. That way we can be sure that we are abiding their personal and religious beliefs and wishes. The option of donating their body to science should definitely be given to them - because we do need human bodies for medical students and scientists to study.

But this? No.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Oopsie doopsy

 

[Loulit01]

The knives of Texas are upon you.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

In contrast, the University of Nebraska Medical School, Omaha only accepts body donations from family. The donations are considered sacred and are treated with due respect, as the individual is giving their last full measure for the benefit of humanity. At the end of each year, there is an on-campus memorial service for the individuals and the family and medical faculty and students attend.

 

[Manc Skipper]

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.

www.nbcnews.com

This is batshit crazy. What was the UNT Health Science Center thinking??

Bidness is bidness, In 16/17th century Britain only the bodies of hanged criminals were legally available to anatomists teaching Dr's their trade. Due to the lack of bodies, a trade grew up in "Resurrectionists" who would visit a fresh grave after the funeral and sell on the body, no questions asked. Two Edinburgh resurrectionists Burke and Hare, took this a step further and began murdering people off the streets to further increase the supply with less effort on their part. I rank these people alongside them.

 

[Napoleon]

Mixed feelings on the examples in the article. This can only happen to the body of the deceased if their families didn’t care enough about them in life. Something tells me they only care now that they can use the corpse as the basis of a lawsuit.

 

[Luce]

Wow…that’s pretty damn egregious.


Personally, I encourage individuals that do not have religious or personal beliefs otherwise to be organ donors and to donate their bodies to science and education when they no longer need them and have passed.

But for any organization to simply take bodies and do this to them without consent is WAY beyond the line.

Individuals that do not have family, etc should be ASKED THEIR WISHES as to what they would like to happy to their body after death. That way we can be sure that we are abiding their personal and religious beliefs and wishes. The option of donating their body to science should definitely be given to them - because we do need human bodies for medical students and scientists to study.

But this? No.

I am having myself sent for ballistics testing.

 

[BirdinHand]

I am having myself sent for ballistics testing.

lol

Going out with a bang huh?

LOL

 

[Luce]

Mixed feelings on the examples in the article. This can only happen to the body of the deceased if their families didn’t care enough about them in life.

Dude you're just mailing it in, now.

 

[Luce]

lol

Going out with a bang huh?

LOL

Yes, it appeals to my sense of the ridiculous.

 

[BirdinHand]

Yes, it appeals to my sense of the ridiculous.

LOL.

 

[Luce]

LOL.

Hamish wants to test ejection seats.

Which is also cool, but not as cool as being strapped to a folding chair and blown up.

 

[BirdinHand]

Hamish wants to test ejection seats.

Which is also cool, but not as cool as being strapped to a folding chair and blown up.

Damn if these are what your family plans are after death, I can only imagine what wedding are like LOL

 

[Luce]

Damn if these are what your family plans are after death, I can only imagine what wedding are like LOL

Traditional Catholic weddings, because that's what our wives wanted, and Mama raised no fools. No. We're a little odd sometimes, but we're not stupid. Give her the wedding she wants.

Neither of our wives are practicing Catholics, they just wanted the big showy weddings. So why not?

 

[BirdinHand]

Traditional Catholic weddings, because that's what our wives wanted, and Mama raised no fools. No. We're a little odd sometimes, but we're not stupid. Give her the wedding she wants.

Neither of our wives are practicing Catholics, they just wanted the big showy weddings. So why not?

Oh, I’m sure you had your fun at the receptions!

 

[dseag2]

My mother willed her body to science at one of the Dallas colleges. They were very thoughtful, and after they were finished with their research they sent me her ashes.

 

[Gordy327]

Personally, I encourage individuals that do not have religious or personal beliefs otherwise to be organ donors and to donate their bodies to science and education when they no longer need them and have passed.

That's my plan for myself. In legal writing too.