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To: one_eyed_penguin
I believe this "farm" is part of the forensics laboratory system. It has been featured on television several times, and the information that is gained by the observations help crime laboratories to solve crimes.
4 posted on 03/28/2004 12:26:17 PM PST by intenseracer
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To: intenseracer; one_eyed_penguin
This corpse farm is owned, IIRC, by the University of Tennessee, and is used to train forensic anthropologists, who do indeed investigate murders and other suspicious deaths. I might be wrong about this next part, not having read the article, but I think that participation of corpses is volontary, permission having been obtained prior to demise, of course.
6 posted on 03/28/2004 12:32:48 PM PST by Living Stone (The following statement is true: The preceding statement is false.)
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To: intenseracer
That's what I thought, too. Maybe. Altho the description here seems rather lacking to make it clear. I'm also sure some of the corpses are deliberately willed to it, just like MEDICAL LABS. So don't get all bent-out-of-shape.

BTW, this comes from a person involved in protecting burial sites, so it's not like I'm totally disinterested. You'd be surprised just how much abuse and neglect the "resting places" take, apparently!
57 posted on 03/29/2004 11:05:33 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
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