Family of man dissected at autopsy event says they didn't give consent
The family of David Saunders, who was dissected in front of a live audience in Portland, says they didn’t know his body would be used that way.
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The family of David Saunders, who was dissected in front of a live audience in Portland, says they didn’t know his body would be used that way.
LOS ANGELES: The organiser of a pay-to-view autopsy in the United States defended the event Wednesday, after an outcry by the family of the dead man who did not know he would be dissected in front of a live audience.
Education platform says it was not privy to arrangements between dead man’s family and corpse sourcing company.
Around 70 people paid up to US$500 each to watch in person an anatomist cut up the body of 98-year-old David Saunders in a hotel ballroom in Oregon.
A grieving widow is horrified after learning her late husband's body, which she donated to science, was dissected in front of a paying audience in a hotel ballroom in Oregon.