FFS - Family Finds Dead Grandfather Being Dissected at an 'Oddities' Event

[RKP5637]

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A family who thought their grandfather’s body would be donated to science learned that he ended up as a sideshow for an “oddities” event, dissected in front of a paying public audience in the middle of a hotel event room across the country.

The body of David Saunders, a 97-year-old WWII veteran, ended up in the ballroom of a Portland, Oregon Marriott hotel, where people paid up to $500 for tickets to see a live autopsy in person.

The family discovered what happened to their grandfathers’ body only after an undercover journalist from Seattle news outlet KING5 attended the October event and spotted the man’s name on a tag hanging from his body. The autopsy, performed by a retired college anatomy professor, included several hours of dissection: slicing into the chest cavity and removing organs and the brain.

Mike Clark, a funeral director in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, handled Saunders’ body after his death. Clark told KING5 that he passed the body to a private company called Med Ed Labs, which claimed to solicit corpses for medical research purposes. That company then sold the body to Jeremy Ciliberto, the founder of DeathScience.org, who partnered with the Oddities and Curiosities Expo to hold the cadaver autopsy event. Ciliberto said he bought bodies for this event for more than $10,000.

[exboyfil]

1. This calls for the Fast Times clip

They sold their bodies to medicine. About $30... Righteous bucks.

Well the price went up.

[Haggard Celine]

2. I guess Ridgemont High was a wealthy school.

All we had to dissect were earthworms, frogs, and fetal pigs. I hated that smell; Gawd, I can still smell it! I wish we had spent more time learning about plants, less on animals. More plant knowledge would be much more useful to me now.

[exboyfil]

3. I did a bunch of dissections with my daughter at home

We home schooled life sciences. Eventually I sent the shark with her to school where she did the dissection with her Earth Science classmates thanks to her great science teacher.

Took a while for the smell to come out of the house. At the time my daughter was thinking medical school She eventually decided on Nursing.

[Haggard Celine]

4. Well it looks like y'all gave her a good background in life sciences.

She must have enjoyed it if she decided to go into the medical field. She'll be able to support herself very well with a nursing degree, especially with what they're getting paid for traveling jobs. Having that smell in the house would definitely be a drawback, though. I'd be burning the hell out of some incense.

[Javaman]

5. if you are going to donate your body to science, you need to contact the institution you wish

to donate to.

I have already contacted a local teaching medical hospital.

make sure you read the fine print.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R!!!!! n/t