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#1 2004-03-10 20:53:45
- Palomar
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Re: Misuse of cadavers?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u … sts_1]Read Me
*Good grief. 
Who would have thought this would be the use of bodies donated to science?
I'm an organ donor, but after reading this I'll never donate my entire body to science after death.
I think this is unethical, given that people aren't forewarned prior to the drawing up of the papers that their bodies might be used this way:
"Michael Meyer, a philosophy professor at Santa Clara University in California who has written about the ethics of donated bodies, said the military's use is questionable because it knows donors did not expect to end up in land mine tests.
"Imagine if your mother had said all her life that she wanted her body to be used for science, and then her body was used to test land mines. I think that is disturbing, and I think there are some moral problems with deception here," Meyers said.
*Has anyone else heard of this before? Geez.
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#2 2004-03-11 05:06:43
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Misuse of cadavers?
Medical cadavers for landmine testing ... doesn't sound legitimate to me!!
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#3 2004-03-11 06:19:23
- Byron
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Re: Misuse of cadavers?
I wouldn't be surprised to see a flurry of lawsuits over this...I really can't think of anyone who'll stand for this kind of thing...
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