A body donated to science - but used to test bombs
By Rozina Sini
BBC News
6 August 2019
A man who donated his mother's body to what he thought was Alzheimer's research learned later it was used to test explosives. So what does happen when your body is donated to medical science?
Last week new details of a lawsuit emerged against the Biological Resource Centre in Arizona, following an FBI raid in 2014 in which gruesome remains of hundreds of discarded body parts were discovered.
The centre, now closed, is accused of illegally selling body parts against the donors wishes.
Newly released court documents revealed that families of those whose bodies had been donated said they believed their relatives' remains would be used for medical and scientific research.
Jim Stauffer is one of the multiple plaintiffs suing the centre. He told Phoenix station ABC 15 he believed his mother's donated body would be used to study Alzheimer's, a disease she had, but he later found out it was used by the military to examine the effects of explosives.
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