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Right, but contacting authorities implies automatically a significant chance that the police will be contacted also (no matter what they might say to you initially).

Once that happens, you have no control over their response.



I was going to look this up to verify, but realized googling "do they still sell actual human..." probably isn't something I want in my search history. So, I'll just say, as a not-noo-fuzzy-recollection, I'm pretty certain that to this day some people who's bodies are donated to science may end up as actual educational props for medical students. In that light, the above thoughts about wanting/needing to track down this person and contact families seems unnecessary as that person did this intentionally.

That said, I absolutely recall seeing a documentary, in modern day, showing people's bodies used in science exhibits to this day. Their point was that while people had voluntarily donated their body to science, they were mostly unaware that this type of display was something that might happen.




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