DISQUS

A Welsh View: Video: Take a Tour of the Body Farm

  • mishele · 9 months ago
    I read something about The Body Farm years ago and have thought of donating my body there since I have Hepatitis C and thus cannot donate anything but my corneas to other people. The idea of decomposing naturally is much more attractive to me than getting stuck full of poisons and being stored like a jam jar someplace in the dark, never to enter the grand cycle of life again. It's like what i do with my pet cats when they die: i bury them and plant a lovely flowering bush over them so iI can think of them turning into something beautiful.
  • Paul R Wilson · 9 months ago
    When I was a kid in Wantagh, L.I., N.Y. I often passed the home of a deranged woman to/from school or sunday school. Her backyard was a jungle of sumac, her lawn was unmowed and was littered with paper bags full of cat bones. I've seen some protruding from rips in the bags. I have never seen the woman, tho.
  • Paul R Wilson · 9 months ago
    It is unfortunant that the process of decomposition is so repulsive to sight & smell. It is also dangerous to the health of those nearby. The sight of a messy cadaver is far worse than that of a skeleton (with which I've worked at the college I am employed at).
  • Robin Capper · 9 months ago
    The Stephen Fry in the US episode that featured a visit to the body farm just aired last week here in NZ. I'd heard of it before but only read about it, the video is another matter, thankfully we don't yet have aromamedia!
  • Fish · 9 months ago
    Are you going to visit that place when you are here Rob?
  • awv · 9 months ago
    I am hoping that they do tours.
  • mishele · 9 months ago
    I think the place is like 5 acres large, and it's not piled with enough bodies to poison anyone around. And it has a tall fence. And some of the bodies are half-buried, or placed underwater or in trunks of cars to see how they decompose under different conditions. It's not like you drive up to a partking lot and there's a chain link fence and a pile of bodies there - they actually have some discretion. They used to use pigs until they got permission to use actual humans. I think it's a service well worth doing; I've heard of at least two alibis for murder that have been broken due to the new information coming out of the BF.