The University of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor

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Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland, and author of 'They Came for the Schools.'

DALLAS — Long before his bleak final years, when he struggled with mental illness and lived mostly on the streets, Victor Carl Honey joined the Army, serving honorably for nearly a decade. And so, when his heart gave out and he died alone 30 years later, he was entitled to a burial with military honors.

“An unclaimed individual is incapable of consenting to any process after death, which includes burial, donation, cremation, eco-burials or any other use of the body,” the center had said in a statement on Aug. 16. “If a relative is not located or does not claim the remains, a decision must still be made.” Shupe argued that it’s problematic for a public medical school to benefit from the deaths of the “very poor” in its community.

 

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