r/mildyinteresting • u/The_Dean_France • May 05 '26

humankind hiccups 😅 This is plain cruel...

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u/theemmyk May 05 '26

The body donation industry is unregulated. There was a whole series of articles about it. They use deliberately misleading language in their contracts so that most people have no idea that their loved one's body may be sold to the military. It's really messed up.

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u/Big-Maintenance2971 May 06 '26

Mary Roach has a novel about human cadavers and it is fascinating. One of the take aways is the fact and law in the US that "you can donate your body to science, but you cannot dictate what is done with it".

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u/Ellie_Edenville May 06 '26

Novels are fiction. Stiff is non-fiction.

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u/Big-Maintenance2971 May 06 '26

Thanks for the clarification. However, the point of my statement is still true.

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u/jml011 May 06 '26

It’s just helpful to others that they clarified; I googled the book based on your comment and was initially confused.