He donated his mother's body to science and the US military. bombs tested with him

Jim Stauffer decided to donate the body of his 73-year-old mother, who died in 2014. She had been battling Alzheimer's disease for years. That's why Stauffer abandoned his body so that science could progress on this disease. However, Stauffer only delivered the brains of his mother, the surprise and the shock were so much worse and terrible.

Stauffer donated the brain to the Biological Resources Center (BRC) a few minutes after Doris Stauffer's death. Later, the center's employees arrived to pick up the body. A few days later, Stauffer received a box containing what was supposed to be the ashes of the woman's body.

An identification number and very little information about what he had done with the body was read in the box. In 2016, the Reuters agency, through an investigation, informed Jim of the tragic fate that the body suffered. The biological resource center sold his mother's body to the US military. to test bombs.

According to the investigation, her mother's body was found strapped to a chair in some craft, then a detonation burst beneath her to see how explosions and bursts cross the human body a vehicle is hit by an improvised explosive device. (IED for its acronym in English) on the road.

The center did not at any time ask the son for permission to do an experiment and at no time was informed of what was going to happen to his mother's body.

"There was an epigraph in the paperwork about these things, they talked about doing medical tests that could involve explosions, and we said no, we checked the" no "box in all the options." Jim said about this moment.

According to Reuters, every body (20 in total) sold by the BRC to the army was sold for $ 5800. All this transaction was done without the consent of the families. For its part, the Pentagon claimed that the company was "dishonest".

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