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This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.. For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were ...
The program went from receiving 439 bodies in the 2019 fiscal year to nearly 1,400 in 2021 — about a third of them unclaimed dead from Dallas and Tarrant counties.
Since 2019, Dallas and Tarrant counties had sent about 2,350 unclaimed bodies to the Health Science Center and, of them, more than 830 were selected for dissection and study.
In September 2024, NBC News revealed that HSC had collected around 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Dallas County and Tarrant County since 2019, of which more than 830 bodies were subsequently selected for dissection and study, without the pre-death consent of the deceased or the consent of their survivors. [18]
While using unclaimed bodies for this purpose remains legal in much of the country, including Texas, it’s widely viewed as unethical because of the absence of consent and the pain it can inflict ...
The NBC News investigation published Monday found the center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Tarrant and Dallas counties in the past five years. More than 830 of them were selected ...
2. Economics drove the use of unclaimed bodies in North Texas. On paper, the Health Science Center’s arrangements with Dallas and Tarrant counties offered a pragmatic solution to an expensive ...
The center, helmed by Trent-Adams, was given roughly 2,350 unclaimed or unidentified bodies from Dallas and Tarrant counties over a five-year period. Of those, 830 corpses were deemed usable for ...