Posted on 05/19/2019 8:27:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
When people ask what will happen to their corpses if theyre donated to a body farm for research, Dr. Shari Forbes provides them with as much, or as little detail, as they wish...
Their corpses would be left for many months, perhaps years, while scientists study how the local climate of Bécancour, Que., just across the river from Trois-Rivières, impacts the five different stages of human decomposition fresh, bloat, active decay, advanced decay and skeletonization or how quickly their soft tissue is lost to necrophagous insects like beetles and blow flies.
Remarkably, people are already signing on...
The worlds first body farm opened in forested land in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1980. Today, there are eight in the U.S., and one each in Holland and Australia. The Canadian facility will be the furthest north of its kind.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
I've never been a 'joiner'. ;^).
I’ve never been a ‘joiner’. ;^).
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member”.
Groucho
It is so we can know what exactly happens and how fast to a human body so we can tell from the remains when they died and maybe a bit of how.
Very important to figuring out if it was murder, accident or natural causes.
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