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Personal Injury & Torts

Oct. 19, 1999

Tales From the Crypt Give Fuel for Class-Action Fire

SANTA ANA - They thought they were donating the bodies of loved ones to science. But rather than educating a future doctor or helping lead to a groundbreaking medical discovery, corpses donated to the Willed Body Program at the University of California, Irvine, were chopped up and sold for personal gain; cadavers used for research were not screened for AIDS or other infectious diseases; and cremated remains were mixed together.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SANTA ANA - They thought they were donating the bodies of loved ones to science. But rather than educating a future doctor or helping lead to a groundbreaking medical discovery, corpses donated to the Willed Body Program at the University of California, Irvine, were chopped up and sold for personal...

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