A school in Texas was going around and scooping up unclaimed bodies, chopping them up and selling the parts for research 

But it’s actually a fairly modern thing to show respect for bodies this way. 

“A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.”

A school in Texas was going around and scooping up unclaimed bodies, chopping them up and selling the parts for research 

But it’s actually a fairly modern thing to show respect for bodies this way. 

“A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-north-texas-corpses-dissected-unclaimed-bodies-rcna170478

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Respectful and ethical use of unclaimed bodies for research