Body donation is an intimate process — it is maybe the final intimacy that we have with the world. It is what we choose to be done to the one ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Cadavers' identities are usually protected, the University of Montana's No. 817 was a 72-year-old woman who was from Montana. No. 817 is known as the gift that keeps giving teaching ...

(RNS) — Indiana Wesleyan professor Mike Tapper worried few of his students would be ready to officiate a funeral when they became pastors at churches, so he came up with a plan that involves mock ...

USC sold dozens of dead bodies to the U.S. Navy to use for medical trauma training for Israel Defense Forces, according to contracts and a published report. The Navy has paid more than $860,000 for at ...

LOS ANGELES -- Collagen to plump up starlets' lips. New knees to enable weekend athletes to play basketball again. Skin for burn victims. Cadavers for surgeons to practice on. A corpse-selling scandal ...