Do you want to
donate your body to
science when you die? Well, you can either be poked and
dissected by the
medical field or you can donate your
remains to
the
Anthropological Research Facility at the
University of Tennesee in
Knoxville.
The researchers at this body farm will lay your dead self
in any number of environments, be it a muddy swamp, a grassy field, or a
shady grove. Then they will let nature take its course, checking back to see how quickly and in what manner your body is
decomposing.
Now, you may be thinking, "That's disgusting! I don't want people recording how I
rot!" But, you will be helping to advance forensic science.
Forensic scientists will be able to better determine how
john or jane doe have died and when their time of death was. You will also help
paleontologists determine what type of environments
dinosaurs and other
fossilized creatures lived (and died) in.
The Anthropological Research Facility was founded in 1972 by Dr. William M. Bass and currently holds over 235
skeletons.