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A Louisiana widow (người đàn bà góa, quả phụ) is left horrified at the news that her deceased (quá cố) husband was dissected (cắt ra từng mảnh, mổ xẻ, giải phẫu) in front of a live, paying audience after she donated his body to scientific research.

Elsie Saunders had carried out the wishes of her late husband, David Saunders, who wanted his body donated to help advance medical science. David Saunders, a World War II and Korean War veteran (cựu binh), died of COVID-19 on August 24 at the age of 98. Donating his body was his last act of patriotism (lòng yêu nước, ái quốc), Elsie Saunders said.

But instead of being delivered to a research facility (cơ sở nghiên cứu), David Saunders’ body ended up in a Marriott Hotel ballroom in Portland, Oregon, where DeathScience.org held an “Oddities and Curiosities Expo.” At the October 17 event, members of the public sat ringside from 9 am to 4 pm—with a break for lunch—to watch David Saunders’ body be carefully dissected. Tickets for the dissection sold for up to $500 per person…

Elsie Saunders learned of the dissection from a Seattle-based reporter at KING 5, who was investigating the event and tracked her down. A photojournalist who attended undercover for KING 5 had noted that the body had a bracelet with the typed name “David Saunders.”

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s horrible, unethical, and I just don’t have the words to describe it,” Elsie Saunders told The Advocate. “I have all this paperwork that says his body would be used for science—nothing about this commercialization of his death.”

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