After he discovered that his mother’s corpse, which he had given to Alzheimer’s research, was really used for military bomb testing, an Arizona man filed a lawsuit against a body donation firm.
Each year, some 20,000 individuals in the US choose to give their remains to science for use in research and teaching, while others choose for a conventional burial or cremation.
The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act may regulate organ donation, yet the “vast gray and black market of dead human bodies” still exists.
“Medical research and education, particularly education, is a vague term and it is not clearly defined even in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act,”
FBI Special Agent Paul Micah Johnson, who has been looking into the topic for around ten years, told CBS News in 2023.
