NASA's Cadavers

In and of itself, I don't have any "ewwww" factor associated with NASA using cadavers to test for strains astronauts are likely to endure during the Orion missions. However, it did remind me of a news story from many years ago. It's been too long for me to remember the specifics but the basic premise was that people were donating their bodies for scientific research but instead of research the bodies were being used for other purposes. I wonder if the families of the three deceased in this story are aware of how the bodies were used. If they thought they were going to be used for cancer research and ended up being used as crash test dummies instead they might not be too happy.