Body donated for science dissected at 'Oddities' expo
Local TV station had sent an undercover reporter to an organized dissection
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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 from a typed ID bracelet as David Saunders, 98, of Baker, Louisiana, a Baton Rouge suburb. Such use ...
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.