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.

The problem in North Texas stemmed from the families of those bodies not being notified that their loved ones were being chopped up for science.

Angry Family Members

According to NBC DFW, an investigation revealed that at least a dozen of North Texas families were never notified about what was happening. They were never informed that their missing relatives were being used for science lessons at medical schools.

It's reported that the University of North Texas Health Science Center, following the investigation, stopped using unclaimed bodies for the time being and fired the individuals in charge who let this happen.

NBC DFW included that, once the information came to light, surviving family members were horrified to hear that their loved ones were being dissected and cut apart without them even knowing.

The full list of over 1,800 bodies given to UNT since 2019 was shared by NBC for two main reasons: to notify families of any potential missing members and to provide links to missing persons for local authorities.

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