BAT*21{usa}
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Post by BAT*21{usa} on Dec 20, 2006 6:14:54 GMT -5
RED and Vin will know about this i know. going back to the truck and motorcycle crash we have been discussing. the reasons for autopsies. here is where they document the different stages of decay of humans under various conditions.ie: open air,trunks of vehicles,under slabs of concrete.under various temperatures and by what species of life is consuming the flesh. i saw this some time ago on The DISCOVERY Channel. it is quite interesting. www.npr.org/templates/story/story/php?storyid=1906569 this has an audio file just click listen and select a player type. www.deathsacre.com/bodyfarm.html this is the web site for it. |
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Post by vinsanity on Dec 20, 2006 11:29:26 GMT -5
Know it... I have been there  In the late 1980s I was a student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. I took a few anthropology classes so that I could visit the body farm. An amazing place that Dr. Bass created to further foresnic study. |
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Post by RedRock on Dec 20, 2006 13:03:40 GMT -5
I applied for a job at UT-K once and Dr. Bass interviewed me, and we talked about possible decomposition research projects (I didn't get the job). Dr. Bass was instrumental in getting a TN law passed that unclaimed bodies could be donated to the body farm for anthropologic research, and he's thus had a lot of material to work with (I believe he's retired now). However, when I worked in elsewhere in TN, I wouldn't use that law, I wanted family permission first; can you imagine telling someone, "I'm sorry, but as your beloved father's (wife's, son's, etc.) body was unclaimed (yes, yes, I know you didn't know he was dead, and we didn't know who he was or where you were when he was finally identified), we gave his body per state law to the body farm, where they laid it out to rot."
Every so often, some controversy arises about the body farm, as it is on or near Cherokee burial grounds, and the Cherokee find that quite objectionable.
A friend of mine, a young forensic anthropologist, is about to open a similar body farm in South Florida on the gulf coast. I don't know of any others operating currently.
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Post by vinsanity on Dec 21, 2006 7:54:45 GMT -5
You are right... from time to time there are some "issues" with unclaimed bodies. But overall the research information obtained by the work at the farm far outweighs those few problems. I know of no other similar operations either. But one in Florida would be useful given the different climate conditions and insect life there.
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Post by RedRock on Dec 21, 2006 13:05:42 GMT -5
......one in Florida would be useful given the different climate conditions and insect life there. Sometimes I think the insects have more of it than I do! |
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In the late 1980s I was a student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. I took a few anthropology classes so that I could visit the body farm. An amazing place that Dr. Bass created to further foresnic study.