Former Operator of Cadaver Research Business in Seattle Did the 'Unimaginable,' Arizona Sheriff Says

[AmyStrange]

Source: MSN

A 59-year-old man who operated a recently shuttered Seattle business called Future GenX, which reportedly researched cadavers, is accused of dumping human heads and limbs in a forested area outside of Prescott, Arizona.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-operator-of-cadaver-research-business-in-seattle-did-the-unimaginable-arizona-sheriff-says/ar-BB1co3ux?ocid=msedgntp

[Karadeniz]

1. This guy must be mentally ill.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Horrible. I have plans to donate my body to UCSOM and now I'm re-thinking. nt

[Hekate]

4. Write or call to see what's going on. Wow.

[Laffy Kat]

5. It's a school of medicine but I want to be reassured they won't profit off my cadaver. nt

[OhioTim]

3. Sorry To Say This

but there have been other instances where bodies have been donated to research and then mistreated.

[moriah]

6. I'm strange -- I *want* mine to be mistreated, but for scientific reasons.

I plan to donate my body, if at all possible, to one of the forensic research facilities that trains students in crime scene investigation/dating remains.

My grandfather died under an assumed name, and I only reconnected with my paternal brother and sister because she was recovered after a "Silver Alert" -- the cause of the missing and the unidentified is very important to me.

So I'm okay with being left in the woods, or if they required it, being dismembered.

But STILL -- when a person says "medical research", they generally think of teaching new med students. NOT the forensic stuff I'm interested in, which should require a very different consent form.

[AmyStrange]

7. Enter The Disturbing World Of Body Farms

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Enter The Disturbing World Of Body Farms

While body farms that leave the dead out to rot may be unbelievably creepy, they're also incredibly important. Here's why.

What do you think happens to your body after you die? You probably have a vague idea, but not a thoroughly realistic conception of the changes your body will undergo after the chilly grip of death has taken hold.

You are not alone. Most people possess very little understanding of the grisly process of human death and decay. In fact, we go to great lengths to keep death and its aftermath out of sight and out of mind.

Just in the United States, about 70 percent of people now die in hospitals, nursing homes, or long-term care facilities, instead of in their homes. And once we’ve died, our bodies are preserved and coated in makeup if there’s going to be a viewing at all, then usually either cremated or buried in a coffin deep underground.

Now, even with this ritualistic practice of concealing death, the human body still endures the process of decomposition, it is simply delayed for a short period of time. And as much as we try to keep this decomposition at bay and out of mind, there’s a subset of scientists who study it intently and up close.

[SNIP]

https://allthatsinteresting.com/body-farms


ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm
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[canetoad]

8. I've already told my best friends

That I'd like to be left in the dunes or in the bush to be food for the birds, animals and insects. I've also said that they must not go to jail, so scattered ashes around a tree may be the only option.

I looked into the body farm route; unfortunately there isn't one in my state. That would have done very nicely.

We humans spend decades sucking the life of the planet, rather than warehousing useful resources in cemeteries, we should be giving what we can back to the planet.

Of course, this is hardly a mainstream way of thinking, so I pleased that our thoughts are so well aligned.

[csziggy]

10. I wanted to do that, but the Florida cadaver system does not allow specifying

You donate your body, your survivors have to pay to have the body prepared and shipped to the closest facility that accepts them, then they distribute the bodies wherever they want to.

So even though there is a medical school and a College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at FSU here in Tallahassee, I can't specify that my body go there. It has to be shipped to Gainesville, then they decide where it is to go.

Check the system in your state - it might be different, but I have decided the way it is set up here, I will not be donating my body.

[Boomer]

9. Okay, that was truly disturbing

Not the dumping of body parts -- that's unfortunate but hardly uncommon. No, what's truly disturbing is what I had in mind when I first read the title. My version of the "Unimaginable" was pretty different from what the article described.

[Delphinus]

11. Hehehe ...

[Dale Neiburg]

13. What I'm having rouble imagining

is how (not to mention why) he transported what sounds like a sizable collection of body parts from Seattle to Prescott.

[cannabis_flower]

16. Me too

I had an even more unimaginable thought. But it’s imaginable for some, like Jeffrey Dahmer!

[Demovictory9]

18. yeah... my mind went there too

[McCamy Taylor]

12. This is beyond stupid. What happens when someone stumbles

across a human skull in the woods? They call the police. And then a costly investigation starts. The criminal justice system will be up to its eyeballs in "serial killings".

[AmyStrange]

17. That was my thought exactly...

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Serial killer investigations ARE expensive, not to mention the scare they put into the public.

Time and money wasted that could be put to better use.
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[iemitsu]

15. My brother walks his dog right where the bones were found.

Creepy.