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Phoenix Body-Donation Company Raided: Coolers Full Of Torsos, Arms, Legs, Male Genitalia, And Heads Found

An Arizona man learned five years after his mother’s death that her body had been sold to the military and detonated in a bomb blast test without his consent, a report said.

Doris Stauffer died at the age of 73 in 2014 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease later in life. Her son, Jim Stauffer, agreed to allow doctors to study his mother’s brain, but the neurologist rejected the body after she died, Phoenix’s KNXV-TV reported. He sought out other biological donation facilities with the hopes his mother’s body could be used to further research into what causes memory loss in Alzheimer's patients.

Biological Resource Center (BRC), a since shutdown Phoenix-based organ-donor facility, arrived within 45 minutes of her death to take the body away, he said. He said he signed paperwork that specified what was and what was not to happen to his mother's body. "Performing these medical tests that may involve explosions, and we said no. We checked the 'no' box on all that,” Jim Stauffer said.

He later received a box with what he was told was the majority of his mother’s ashes, some information and an ID number.

He said Reuters assembled a paper trail using internal documents obtained by authorities that revealed BRC sold his mother's body to a military contractor to be used in detonation testing. Her body was strapped to a chair and a bomb was detonated underneath it to simulate what happens to the human body when a vehicle hits an IED, he said.

"I feel foolish," he told KNXV-TV. "Because I’m not a trusting person, but in this situation, you have no idea this is going on -- you trust. I think that trust is what they fed on.”

He joined a civil lawsuit filed against BRC and its owner Stephen Gore, which alleges the body-donor facility preyed on low-income, uneducated and grieving families to get them to donate their loved ones’ bodies under false pretenses.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations raided BRC in 2014 after allegations that the organization was dissecting body parts to sell them for profit. Gore pleaded guilty in 2015 to defrauding customers by selling contaminated body parts to paying medical institutions, Reuters reported. Gore will appear in court in October to face the families involved in the civil suit.
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Arizona man says his mother's body was blown up in a military detonation test without his consent: report

An Arizona man learned three years after his mother’s death that her body had been sold to the military and detonated in a bomb blast test without his consent, reports said.
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And the horror continues...https://nationalpost.com/news/world/he-donated-his-mothers-brain-for-alzheimers-research-years-later-he-found-out-the-army-blew-up-her-body

Doris Stauffer, 73, who died in 2013, suffered from the disease despite not having any linked gene, making her a useful case for brain study. Jim said he consented to giving up her body under the condition that only her brain be donated to neurological research groups.
The donation was immediate. Within 45 minutes, an official from the BRC turned up to pick up her body, agreement form in hand. The form asked if the body could be used on “non-medical projects that could involve exposure to destructive forces e.g., impacts, crashes, ballistic injuries, and blasts.”
Stauffer told Arizona-based ABC 15 he ticked “no.” His mother was whisked away and days later, he received a wooden box with her information, ID, and what he was told was the majority of her ashes.
It took three years before Stauffer found out how his mother’s remains were actually used.
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The center cremated her hand and sent him those ashes....they sold the rest of her body to the military and it was used to show what happens when a body is impacted by an IED...it was literally blown up.
 
Brillig said:
Might become the next piercing fad.
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LOL, many probably done it, thinking it's so edgy, yet just a simple minded imitation IMO.
Really... Jack Pierce melodramatic makeup genius without Boris Karloff's acting genius? Who can top Boris Karloff's talent? The original Karloff Frankenstein monster was an amazing mime.
Of course, body modification devotees will say I don't get their take on it.
That's because I'm an old fashioned cineaste!
 
And apparently this isn't just a U.S. thing....Paris is on the same type of "who cares where the bodies go or what's done with them" kick.
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Bodies 'left to rot' at Paris-Descartes University donation centre

The facility at Paris-Descartes University closes while a government investigation is carried out.
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A human body donation centre at a university in Paris has temporarily closed while a government investigation into its conduct is carried out.
Thousands of bodies were left to decay in unsanitary conditions at The Centre for Body Donations at Paris-Descartes University, reports say.
Some bodies and body parts were reportedly sold to private companies, it is alleged.
The revelations were first reported by French newspaper L'Express on Tuesday.
An investigation by the paper said dozens of bodies were stored "nude, decomposing, piled up on gurneys, with their eyes wide open".
The paper described the centre as "a mass grave in the heart of Paris".
The university has acknowledged the investigation and apologised to the families of body donors.
In a statement on its website (in French), the university admitted the centre's practices fell short of "societal demands for respect for dignity".
"Paris-Descartes University wishes to apologise to families about this situation," it said. "The university wishes to clarify and reaffirms its full commitment to the dignity of donors and their families."
The French Union for Free Medicine (UFML) said it would file a complaint. The president of the union, Jerome Marty, told franceinfo the case brought the medical profession into disrepute.
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