Yes, they actually do this stuff.
A “body farm”, it’s called? Will that be on “CSI” next season? Oh, wait, it’s the CSI-type people *doing * it.
Um … urp … they do, huh?
Okay, that’s enough zombie hatcheries for any one country, I would have thought. But we need a third, huh? Well, maybe not as much as we need airplanes.
It has to stop somewhere, and by God, it stops right here and now in San Marcos, Texas!
Not only do they bury them, sometimes they just leave them lying on the surface, or so I’m told. This is one of the most disturbing forms of research, but it’s pretty important. I’ve read a lot recently about the dubious scientific grounding of some forensic techniques; when we’re dealing with a murder case I think we really need to be able to get this stuff right.
I don’t think I’d be able to deal with operating such a “farm”, though.
I’m all for science but they have been doing these things for a while now. Just judging from experience, even if you had just two acres, you could bury a hundred bodies at a time and then cycle through them for study. After 27 years of this being done in Tennessee, I would think that they would have most of the scenarios covered already. I hate to think what the uncharted territory in this field is. I know that the government has been infiltrated by homosexuals, pedophiles, and generalized perverts for some time now. Do you suppose that the necrophiliacs may be starting a little “pork-barrel” project of their own here?
Well, maybe they don’t have access to all that many bodies. There must be a high demand for research cadavers, and these facilities may not be very high in the pecking order. That could slow down the process considerably.
I don’t think you meant any offense, but you may get some comments on this grouping . . .
I suspect that - besides needing it as a training facility for forensic examination classes at the universities - there is also a lot of merit to having these in different climates to study the varying effects.
If you’re not squeamish, I highly recommend the book Death’s Acre, by Dr. Bill Bass, about the Tennessee “body farm.”
If that were true they wouldn’t be as concerned about the buzzards.
OK, officer, I’ll go quietly…
They did THAT seasons ago.
I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
Mary Roach had a lot to say about the Body Farm (the one in Tennessee) in her book Stiff
I’ve seen a documentary about the Body Farm in Tennessee; I think it was on the Discovery channel. I wouldn’t object to my body being a subject for study after I’m through with it.