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Local TV station had sent an undercover reporter to an organized dissection

News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an event marketed as an...

An organization that bought a human body and organized its public dissection has said that it had a contract saying the body could be used for education, and its “Cadaver Lab Class” was appropriately educational, despite criticism from the man’s widow. Death Science said it does not have any information about the man whose body was dissected on Oct. 17 in Portland, Oregon, with tickets sold through a separate “Oddities and Curiosities Expo.” Seattle station KING-TV identified the man ...

By Simon Gutierrez Click here for updates on this story    PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) -- Details about a live autopsy performed in a

The blurred video showed a cadaver on a table in a hotel ballroom. A man stood over the body, addressing an audience that had paid to watch the dissection of a corpse. Some people snapped on gloves and hovered, peering and touching.

The body of a Louisiana veteran who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an “Oddities and Curiosities Expo” in Oregon, news agencies report. His wife is aghast.

“Five hundred a seat for people to watch — this is not science, this is commercialism.” Read more at Boston.com.

After being under the impression her husband's body would be used for science, the wife believes that this event was a commercialization of her husband's death.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An organization that bought a human body and organized its public dissection says it had a contract saying it could be used for

The body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an "Od...