The body of a WWII veteran used in a live pay-per-view autopsy in Portland, Oregon, has been shipped home to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. David Saunders, who was 98 when he died of COVID-19 on Aug. 24, 2021, donated his body to science—only to have it dissected in front of a live audience in a ballroom at the Marriott Hotel, reportedly without his family’s knowledge or consent. “When a family chooses to donate a loved one’s body for education or research, they do so with the hope that they will help others,” according to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) on its website. “Regrettably, many, like the Saunders family, are unknowingly contributing to a for-profit industry in which the body of their loved one could be traded as raw material in a largely unregulated national market.” Med Ed Labs in Las Vegas received Saunders’s donated body, which was later sold for …
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