Donate your body to science? This is what happens next. : Short wave : NPR
Platen Heil Act 1894.
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When we think of Halloween, we think of graveyards and Dr. Frankenstein raising the corpse. short wave I want to know what happens when I donate my body to a real scientist. Host Aaron Scott spoke with journalist Abby Ohheiser about his trip to the Forensic Osteology Research Station at Western Carolina University, or Forrest, and the Anatomy Lab at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, saying that the bodies provided were I learned how to help everyone from surgeons to lawyers. Enforcement to forensic archaeologists do their job.
This episode may not be for the squeamish, but Abby says these death spaces aren’t morbid. Instead, they’re surprisingly peaceful.
You can read Abby’s full article at MIT Technology Review.
Students recover a donated body for burial at the Forensic Osteology Research Station (FOREST) at the University of Western Carolina.
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Students recover a donated body for burial at the Forensic Osteology Research Station (FOREST) at the University of Western Carolina.
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This episode was produced by Berly McCoy, edited by Gabriel Spitzer, and fact-checked by Abē Levine. Natasha Branch was an audio engineer.
