Dead people are still used in all kinds of testing and it is not all medical. Human Cadavers are still used to crash test cars.
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“‘automakers don’t have the medical resources that cadaver tests require.
But universities do. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funds scores of cadaver tests at schools across the country every year; many of those schools also get grants from automakers. And the data they gather can be shared widely.”
In spite of all it’s internet users Facebook cannot tell if your face is dead or alive. They have mastered everything about social networking except digital death and dying. Have you seen a ghost on Facebook?
Everyone from the New York Times to CNET has covered this. Facebook is testing some software that supposedly can determine. whether the owner of a Facebook account is dead or alive!
Some one times someone needs to notify (set up) facebook and delete the account or setup a memorial page. Maybe soon you will be able to send a message from your iphone to your facebook account from the grave. Many folks are being buried with their cell phones these days!
Maybe an iphone casket would work?
Snippet from CNET:
“I used to live in a haunted house. The lady who wandered around it in a white nightdress seemed benign enough. She never deliberately startled me or said “boo” and never made a mess. I think she was simply looking for something or someone she’d left behind. It wasn’t me, as she had died, I believe, somewhere around 1672.
Facebook now has a similar issue to deal with. Around its vastly populated house, there are people who waft away to the next firmament without leaving a note or even saying goodbye. But they’re still there. Out there. Somewhere.
Which is frightfully inconsiderate. It makes Facebook look frightfully inconsiderate too.”
Forty Mishandled uncremated bodies have been found at a Maryland Funeral Home. The State has shut the Funeral Home down. The Video here has all the details on the closure of the funeral home, and the dead bodies in a pile on the floor of the garage waiting for cremation. Another case of Corpse abuse.
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For the Haiti Earthquake victims there is no mortuary to call, no funeral director, no mortician to help. No government agency from Haiti,the US or anywhere in the world is helping with the dead. Fox News Video:
For MOST there is no place for a loved one to go except a mass grave.
Apparently there is no help coming due to an early decision by the US State Department and the US National Funeral Directors Association(NFDA) not to respond immediately.
For many dead there is only place to go a mass grave.
The archbishop of Port Au Prince Funeral took place in a parking lot funeral while most of 111,000 Haiti’s Earthquake Dead went to mass graves.
Archbishop of Haiti Funeral- Photo Credit-Shawn Thew/EPA
” Hundreds of Haitians — some still bandaged, many in tears — gathered in the parking lot of the destroyed cathedral here Saturday for the funeral of the archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
Revered as a humble servant of the poor, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, 63, died as so many others did: crushed by his own home. Priests and his relatives emphasized that his death was one among multitudes.
The vicar general of the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Msgr. Charles Benoit, died with him, and on Saturday the two clergymen lay in a pair of white caskets just a few hundred yards from the rubble that killed them.
Bishop Lafontant, meanwhile, implored the country’s Christians to see the cataclysm as an opportunity for growth.
“God had something to say and he said it here,” the bishop said. “He did it because he wants Haiti to become a new country.”
For most, however, grief and exhaustion still reigned. As the hearse moved out of the parking lot, the sister of Monsignor Benoit slapped the window, cried and screamed.via www.nytimes.com
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