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A text of Marilyn Marceau
A dozen people responded to the call Tuesday night, in the school gym Terre-des-Jeunes, despite difficult road conditions.
The secure thanatology research site (SSRT) at UQTR will be located near rue Louis-Riel, in a wooded and isolated corner of the Bécancour industrial park. The area will be approximately 600 square meters.
Professors and researchers Shari Forbes, Frank Crispino and Gilles Bronchti were present to answer citizens' questions, but very few questions were asked.
Many, like Odilon St-Louis, were mostly interested in learning more about the lab. The resident of the Gentilly sector sees the project with a good eye.
This is a plus, it makes our region known, not just in the province, but from an international point of view, because the researchers come from all over the place and they will find out about the site and there is certainly world who will come from abroad to visit it
he said after attending the briefing.
Researchers have indeed stated that the installation of this site could make Becancour a place of choice to host the scientific community at conferences, for example.
Representatives of the Catholic Diocese of Nicolet were also on site. In particular, they asked for more information about body donation to science.
The research site will be used to badyze the decomposition of human bodies. They will be deposited there to study the post-mortem modifications under natural conditions, in a northern climate. This research could help elucidate disappearances or homicides, for example.
The Mayor of Bécancour, Jean-Guy Dubois, said that he did not feel any concern from the population about this project, but found an important information session.
It must be understood of course that it is not usual, it is not something that one sees every day. Especially since it touches human corpse, so at that moment I think people need information
, did he declare.
How will the site be secure?
Fences will be installed to prevent people and animals from going under or over. There will also be, in particular, surveillance cameras.
The barriers will be provided with an opaque canvas to discourage the curious.
Additional protection will be installed to protect human bodies. Inside the site itself, the bodies will be enclosed in protective cages
says the professor in the department of chemistry, biochemistry and physics, Frank Crispino.
Site preparation is expected to begin in the spring of 2019, with the goal of being operational in the summer.
It will first find pig carcbades on which researchers will test their sensors, before using them on human bodies.
UQTR is considering setting up other sites elsewhere in Quebec and in other Canadian provinces, for example in British Columbia, Ontario and New Brunswick. These would be sites complementary to that of Bécancour.
With the collaboration of Marie-Ève Trudel
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