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As a University of Tennessee student, I am outraged at your comments.

First of all, Knoxville, is not some "sleepy Tennessee town." It's a mid-sized city of several hundred thousand people.

The "body farm" as it's known, largely because of the book by Patrica Cornwell, is an important, world-reknown research center. The FBI trains here regularly. Dr. Bass is one of the most respected forensic scientists in the world, and UT is very lucky to have him.

The bodies that they use are very respected. They are either people that donate their bodies to the project specifically, or are unclaimed ones. They are put in a variety of situations to so forensic scientists can understand when a person died, what killed them, etc. when a body is discovered in the elements.

This "crime against humanity" has solved hundreds of crimes, and helped put many criminals behind bars. I suggest you actually do a little thing called a google search before you post such a ludicrous and uninformed post again.

However, I suppose if you or one of your family members was brutally killed and left in the elements, you'd prefer the police to not use any of the important information gleaned from these facts because Dr. Bass and not the murderer deserves to "burn in hell."

I may disagree with you on this. We should view human beings, dead or alive as human entity, not objects.

If myself or a family member is murdered in a violent crime. It's the criminal who deserves his/her body used for this experiment, not good human being who did NOT commit this crime.

If Dr. Bass insists to use someone else body to gather his facts for me. I would say NO to that. Why should I harm someone who has nothing to do with the murderer. That's my thinking.

We should teach people to be good Christian so they will not commit violent crime and this thing is un-necessary.