Posted on 08/02/2019 7:30:04 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Man who donated his mother's body to an Arizona center for Alzheimer's research discovers it was sold on to the US Military for $6,000, strapped to a chair and blown up in 'blast test'.
An Arizona man who donated his mother's body to science in the hopes neurologists could shed new light about Alzheimer's disease made a startling discovery.
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It really makes you wonder if the ashes you get after cremating a deceased loved one is really their remains....
If your loved-one is into metal, this would be awesome. “Dude. We’re gonna have the army like strap your body to something and blow it up man! “. —air guitar—
Hey I’ll VOLUNTEER mine for that!!
he blowed up real good.
Just the ticket for someone looking to go out with a bang !
I have a family member who worked at a well known medical school. Due to the shenanigans there she advised never donate your body to science!
Once you sell something to another, you lose control over what happens to it.
Dang, now I’m hungry.
I think I’ll stick to chick-fil-a, though. :)
It sounds awful, but how much more to the story is there?
When you donate your body to science, do you get to specify how it is used? How many other Alzheimer’s patients have already done the same and how useful is each body for research? How much does it cost to maintain a body in a preserved state that can be useful for medical research and was that body able to meet the needs of the research?
There’s probably terms and conditions for the companies that do these things that say they try to comply with the donor’s wishes, but it’s really going to end up at the discretion of the business.
Also, the articles I’ve read make it seem like some nut in the military just bought grandma with a government credit card and strapped some dynamite to her just for a sick joke. Blast testing may help save thousands of lives in the future, I don’t know if a human body is really needed for some level of validation testing of a product in R&D before fielding, but we won’t know that from the clickbait-style of reporting. Maybe the Army decides the negative press isn’t worth it and rewrites it’s testing criteria and less thoroughly tested body armor or construction standards are used in the future. I do hope the man gets to learn the value of his loved one’s donation and that it was in fact used to collect data that helps save lives in the future.
Biologicals are biologicals, but this is unnerving.
A. The Military conducts these tests for necessary data.
B. The info on what happens to donated bodies should remain classified, and definitely concealed from family members.
C. Upon the decision to donate, there should be some clear mention of this possibility. There very likely already is some mention of it.
Grandma got run over by a siege engine
Walking home from our house Middlemas Eve
When I die I want to do everything I was too chicken to do when alive.
Lesson: If you don’t want your mom blown up by the army, don’t donate her body to do Alzheimer’s research....yeah, that’s pretty much what we learned here....
What...no pics from Farm Report?
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