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Rebecca George doesn’t thoughts the vultures that complain from the bushes that encompass the Western Carolina University physique farm. George research human decomposition, and a part of decomposing is changing into meals. Scavengers are welcome.
George, a forensic anthropologist, locations the physique of a donor within the Forensic Osteology Research Station—often known as the FOREST. This is Enclosure One, the place donors decompose naturally above floor. Nearby is Enclosure Two, the place researchers examine our bodies which were buried in soil. She is the power’s curator, and displays the donors—typically for years—as they turn out to be nothing however bones.
In the US, about 20,000 folks or their households donate their our bodies to scientific analysis and schooling every year. Whatever the rationale, the choice turns into a present. Western Carolina’s FOREST is among the many locations the place watchful caretakers know that the lifeless and the residing are deeply related, and the way in which you deal with the primary displays the way you deal with the second. Read the total story.
—Abby Ohlheiser
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+ Okay, that’s sufficient atmosphere for one evening.