Horror as Veterans’ Bodies Are Carved Up

and Sold for Parts Without Permission from Families

Texas: The Medical Examiner’s Offices of Dallas and Tarrant County sent the remains of 2,350 people to the body donation program at the University of North Texas (UNT) Health Science Center in Fort-Worth. UNT leadership claimed to have been unaware that the body program was routinely shipping unclaimed remains — including those of US. military veterans — across state lines. Hundreds of other corpses were collected from nursing homes, hospital beds and homeless encampments – and sold on the open market. UNT rented out the body parts for a profit, often without the consent of the families of the deceased. UNT charged $1,400 for whole bodies. Heads went for $649, torsos for $900. UNT cleared $2.5 million per year by leasing body parts to medical groups. The program has saved the Dallas Medical Examiner’s Office money because it no longer has to bury the poor. UNT has suspended the program and fired the officials who led it.