For years, unclaimed bodies in Dallas and Tarrant Counties have been sent to the University of North Texas for study and dissection, but recent backlash from lawmakers and surviving family members has rocked the status quo.
Educational Purposes Only
Since 2019, over 2,300 corpses in North Texas were delivered to medical schools across the country. However, the University of North Texas is drawing some heat for their use of cadavers in scientific research.
The bodies would be selected, based on their viability, to train doctors and nurses, or they were cut up and shipped to various medical schools for dissection and educational purposes…