Rebecca George doesn’t thoughts the vultures that complain from the timber that encompass the Western Carolina College physique farm. George research human decomposition, and a part of decomposing is turning into meals. Scavengers are welcome.

George, a forensic anthropologist, locations the physique of a donor within the Forensic Osteology Analysis Station—often called the FOREST. That is Enclosure One, the place donors decompose naturally above floor. Close by is Enclosure Two, the place researchers examine our bodies which have been buried in soil. She is the power’s curator, and displays the donors—generally for years—as they change into nothing however bones.

Within the US, about 20,000 folks or their households donate their our bodies to scientific analysis and training annually. Regardless of the cause, the choice turns into a present. Western Carolina’s FOREST is among the many locations the place watchful caretakers know that the lifeless and the residing are deeply related, and the way in which you deal with the primary displays the way you deal with the second. Learn the complete story.

—Abby Ohlheiser

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