NEW ORLEANS (AP) An organization that bought a human body and organized its public dissection says it had a contract saying it could be used for education, and its “Cadaver Lab Class” was appropriately educational, despite criticism from the man's widow.
News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an event marketed as an.
The widow of David Saunders, 98, said she did not know the body of her husband, who died of Covid-19, would be taken apart at an Oregon hotel where audience members paid up to $500 to attend.
BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Parish district attorney is in contact with his counterparts in Las Vegas and Portland, Oregon, to explore if any laws were broken when the body of a Baker man was dissected last month in front of a paying audience in a hotel ballroom halfway across the country.At the same time, the company that provided the body of David Saunders to the company that hosted the “Oddities and Curiosities Expo” at a Portland Marriott said they will no longer work together.