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skylucy

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6. I fail to see why this is shocking or a scandal...except for the fact that people who donated

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2016, 05:25 PM

Dec 2016

the bodies of loved ones now have to deal with the images that this investigative report has made public. Aren't there many people injured in explosions...both in the military and in civilian accidents? I imagine that even using donated cadavers for research on Alzheimers might not be something that would look lovely to us if we saw what researchers do to the bodies. That doesn't make the research any less important.

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US Army blew up bodies that were donated for medical research [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2016 OP

Blast injury is complicated and poorly understood greymattermom Dec 2016 #1

Sounds like research to me. Throd 2.0 Dec 2016 #2

So...if you give them the body JenniferJuniper Dec 2016 #3

When I'm done with it, sure, they can blow it up. But... TygrBright Dec 2016 #4

HOLY FUCK! The lack of respect for life and the dead will be our doom. vkkv Dec 2016 #5

You outrage is misplaced. Blowing up bodies and body parts allows researcher FSogol Dec 2016 #8

I'd say your priorities are misplaced. YOU want to fight a better war. I want vkkv Dec 2016 #20

Military applications also have civilian applications, 1st responders, construction workers, FSogol Dec 2016 #24

Many modern trauma care techniques.... Adrahil Dec 2016 #25

Do you think body farms are bad as well? Lokilooney Dec 2016 #15

Dehumanization in any form is not helping humanity. vkkv Dec 2016 #21

I'll stick with science.. Kuhl Dec 2016 #28

I fail to see why this is shocking or a scandal...except for the fact that people who donated skylucy Dec 2016 #6

They don't call it selling greymattermom Dec 2016 #7

Exactly. Mary Roach has a chapter in her book, "Stiff" on blast research. n/t FSogol Dec 2016 #9

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. elmac Dec 2016 #10

Emo Phillips, is what I've heard. Doesn't sound like something Will Rogers would say. NT mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2016 #13

Yeah well when I die I'm going out like I came in Lokilooney Dec 2016 #16

If my mortal coil is blown up to help understand how to fix soldiers ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2016 #11

If you donate your body Bayard Dec 2016 #12

My guess is that they are keeping it refrigerated TexasBushwhacker Dec 2016 #14

Yep, I'd imagine canetoad Dec 2016 #17

To donate your body here it must be processed by a funeral home csziggy Dec 2016 #27

This is research. If they cut it up in anatomy lab, it still ends up in pieces. McCamy Taylor Dec 2016 #18

While I have no personal qualms about this, what they did was wrong... Locut0s Dec 2016 #19

This is where this situation fails in my mind as well... EarthFirst Dec 2016 #26

pretty clear he has a reason to be upset Locrian Dec 2016 #22

This story is at least three years old oberliner Dec 2016 #23