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Arizona Man Learns Mother’s Body Was Detonated By the Military


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This is why a lot of people refrain from donating their bodies to “science” after their death.

An Arizona man donated his mother’s body in hope that scientists would study more about Alzheimer’s which was the disease that ultimately led to her death.

However, Jim Stauffer was shocked after finding out that his mother’s body which was donated to the Biological Resource Center was then sold to the military and used in bomb blast testing.

According to Stauffer, his mother was strapped up to a chair and several minutes after being strapped up an IED was detonated underneath her.

 

KCCI had more details to share:

An Arizona man who donated his mother’s body to science in the hopes neurologists could shed new light about Alzheimer’s disease made a startling discovery.

Jim Stauffer donated his mother’s body to Biological Resource Center after she died from Alzheimer’s in 2013, KNXV-TV reported.

But instead of her brain going to neurologists, he learned that Doris Stauffer’s body was sold to the military and used in an IED blast test, according to an in-depth Reuters report.

“She was then supposedly strapped in a chair on some sort of apparatus, and a detonation took place underneath her to basically kind of get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED,” Stauffer told the TV station. “Every time I dream about my mom, I told you she was a quiet person, this person in my dream was angry.”

The Daily Mail had these details to share:

An Arizona man has spoken out about the heartbreak he endured when learning that the body of his mother, which he donated to a medical research center, was sold off to the military and blown up in a ‘blast testing’ experiment.

Doris Stauffer, 73, died five-years ago in hospice care following a several year battle with Alzheimer’s, despite doctors saying she didn’t carry the gene for the disease.

Medical officials feared the condition may have mutated and hoped to study her brain after her death to further investigate.

However, when she died in 2014, her neurologist was unable to accept her remains so her son, Jim, reached out to a number of donation facilities who he hoped would continue the investigation.

Finally, he settled on the Biological Resource Center (BRC) in Maricopa County following a recommendation from a nurse, under the agreement that the company – led by Stephen Gore – would send her brain to a neurological research group.

‘I feel foolish,’ Jim Stauffer told FOX6, learning the true fate of his mother’s remains. ‘Because I’m not a trusting person, but in this situation you have no idea this is going on — you trust. I think that trust is what they fed on.’

Jim recalled how an official from BRC came to pick up his mother’s remains within 45 minutes of her death.



 

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