Posted on 11/04/2021 7:53:44 PM PDT by markomalley
A 98-year-old man who donated his body to science ended up being dissected before a paying audience at a “freak show” event in Oregon. The family of the man is outraged over how his body was desecrated without their consent.
The audience paid $500 per ticket to watch the body of David Saunders be dissected, live and in person.
“Event organizers sold tickets for up to $500 to the public to view in-person the autopsy and dissection of a human body. The event is part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo, which travels across the country,” local station KING 5 reports.
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Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was a psych major at a ‘rat-runner’ psych department. That is, it wasn’t ‘tell me how you feel’ psych department but rather one that now calls itself ‘brain science’. Anyway one course was physiological psych, and the lab involved dissecting human brains. Each group of three got a human brain to dissect.
If you don’t know, the human brain has both dark matter and white matter which look an awful like light and dark turkey meat. One group (not mine) took some slices and put them between two pieces of bread as a bit of a macabre joke.
At the time I thought, someone ‘donated their body to science’ only to have some college juniors make jokes out of the part of their body that experienced his or her life.
When I first started college the big scandal was some student who, in front of other students, jumped rope with the intestines of a donator.
Never, ever, ever would I donate myself or a loved one!
I did read the linked story.
Do you really think all donated bodies end up in medical schools?
Many used in various testing envionments.
Some were for a number of years, placticised and displayed to paying audiences in a World Tour (Body Works).
Body Works was only shut down due concerns that it might had used some executed Chineese prisoners.
Those are also bodies donated to science.
Did they pass out free samples with toothpicks?
That’s freaking disturbing.
When I went through nursing school we treated the cadavers with incredible respect. I know it sounds weird but I actually prayed to God each time for such a special, humbling honor.
These people are evil.
Gee I heard about Dark Web snuff rooms but Mr Sanders was "alive" at the time? "Aaaaaaaahhhh!!!
This was a profit making sideshow.
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About as much science as the vaccine mess.
Disgraceful.
I have to agree. $500 a ticket? C’mon, man!
I was watching a show earlier tonight, a true crime show, where an undertaker was removing bone and leg tissue from the deceased that were brought to him to be prepared for burial. He was replacing the flesh with towels and clothing, and replacing the femurs with, get this- pvc pipe. They showed x-rays with the pvc pipe in place, with a pvc elbow in each hip socket and the other end of the pipe fitted over the cut end of the knee , to approximate the dead person’s height.
He was selling the bone and tissue to suppliers who in turn sold it to hospitals for grafts.
That’s not the worst part- some of those people who died had HIV, Cancer, and God knows what else.
He made millions $$$$ before they caught him.
It’s all about the money…
Reminds me of that cadaver art
Art some here defended btw
Hardly comparable
Grossanatomy serves a purpose...a medical school class
Having attended gross lab with my md uncle ....I can attest it’s a flavor that requires acclimation
Science!
What if a gun club bought the body to be used in a shooting tournament? The outrage at those pesky gun lovers would be molecular.
It’s one thing to be dissected in front of a large group of med students, but something else entirely to have that done for a curious, paying public. Talk about intimate exposure...
Makes me reconsider donating myself to science. I’m worried about the, “brain in a jar” stuff, but this is almost as bad.
The federal government has several outdoor labs where dead bodies are just tossed on the ground and allowed to decay naturally.
One goal is forensic - to document exactly what happens to a body in a certain geography during a certain time of year.
Now that I know people will pay $500 each to watch an autopsy, I am going to negotiate directly with the exhibitors.
I am thinking in terms of a futures contract, so I can spend the money while I am still in good health.
My son-in-law was an organ donor and passed away at age 33. They took the skin off his face and that’s all they took.
Necessitated a closed casket funeral for sure.
A private invitation to an organ harvest seems a bit odd - but is not on the level of a “pay-per-view” of a dissection.
My mom died at 96. She had donated her body to the local university for training. They wouldn’t accept her body if she had any open bedsores, so she was always reminding us to keep her laying in different positions so she wouldn’t get rejected! (The university would cover much of the costs of cremation, etc.)
About a year after she died the school had a nice ceremony for all of the donor bodies for that year.
True story. Alistair Cooke’s remains were so desecrated.
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