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A Pennsylvania man is facing criminal charges after flushing his grandparents' ashes down the toilet. Thomas Porter Wells, 33, allegedly did the deed after his mother kicked him out of her house because of his drinking habit and marijuana use. Wells texted his mother later, saying "and soon as you die you'll be going in the same spot where you belong down the (expletive) you (expletive)." **SNIP** Wells faces two counts of abuse of a corpse and criminal mischief.

BEIJING, (AFP) - Outrage is growing over a factory processing dead bodies in northeast China for a German company that puts them on display in major European cities, state media says. The plant, near Dalian city, is used by Body Worlds which was founded by Guenther von Hagens, the German anatomist who has created a stir with his exhibitions of flayed human corpses in a variety of poses, the Beijing Morning Post reported. According to reports in the Chinese media, the plant imports more than 100 corpses from abroad every year, and reprocesses them into about 40 plastinated works of...