Motherboard Goes To The Body Farm

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These simple words, followed by an office and a home phone number, usher one into the quiet landscape beyond it: a couple acres of nondescript, fenced-in land, and in the distance a shed, an abandoned trailer, a few trees, and some dirt paths. There are rows of green tarps covering bulky heaps on the ground. Yellow plastic sashes with CRIME SCENE written on them in black cordon off little areas here and there. On closer inspection, human skulls and assorted other bones are found strewn among the leaves, and soon it becomes clear that there are swarms of maggots doing their job on the remains. The human remains. The Anthropology Research Facility—or the Body Farm, as it has been nicknamed, much to the chagrin of its employees—is dedicated to the study of the rate of human decomposition. It’s a critical and still-emerging field of forensic science that helps to identify and lock up murderers and gives TV crime writers all their best material.

Dr. Bill Bass, the facility’s founder, has twice the energy of a man half his age and possesses a warm, welcoming demeanor—not what one might expect from someone whose life’s work is dedicated to the study of rotting corpses. But Bass is all charm and smiles. When I met with him on the facility’s grounds in Knoxville, Tennessee, surrounded on all sides by bodies in varying states of decay, he answered questions about how he came to open the research center with undisguised and fresh enthusiasm.


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[cobrar123]

i realy dont care what happens to my body after im dead. heck i wont needed no more anyways. i told my family i prefer cremation but is what ever they want to do. heck for all i care they can save my bones and hang them up on the door for halloween.

[Gnomestress]

I believe that they are bodies that are donated to science. Why wouldn't you want a loved one to contribute to the knowledge of human decomposition? They will rot either way. At the body farm, they're doing real good!

[DarkDreamer126]

OHMYGOD THIS IS HUMAN RESEARCH THIS IS SO BAD AND ILLEGAL HOLY CRAP HWO CAN PEOPLE DO THIS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM!? EVER HEARD OF HUMAN RIGHTS??? YOU SICK DISGUSTING PEOPLE!11!!!!!!11!!!1!!11!!!!! That's what a dumbass would say to this video

[DarkDreamer126]

@cobrar123 holy fuck that's the funniest thing I've read all day :D :D

[AndrewKH85]

people with souls dont have hobbies like body rotting.

[airavillamor]

this place really smells bad for sure..

[OmgSam1989]

00:32 does that body have a boner...? o.o

[Wodey25]

@cosmicsuperstrong lol, after watching this chilling video I could use a stiff drink!

[Wodey25]

@Brendon00000 Hehe, well what about good old cremation? Did you know that cremated remains aren't actually ashes, like most people think, but they are in fact calcified powder? In other words, your body is reduced back to the elements you're made of by the extreme heat, not burned or directly changed like fire chemically changes things. BTW, after being frozen by liquid nitrogen, your body would thaw into a gnarly mess.

[Brendon00000]

this guy will be joining the corpses pretty soon

[Brendon00000]

this is a sick way of going from perfect health to the most discusting thing on earth, im going by liquid nitrogen

[GiggleHz]

@nokomarie1963 well no shit but i wouldnt find joy in knowing a loved ones corpse is just lying around out in the open decomposing for science or not. I guess thats why its a choice eh?