The "Dead" Farm

I think I have found my source for information. There's this website that I randomly clicked on and well, it has some pretty interesting stuff. (To me) Anyways for this week, I thought we would take a look at a farm that holds death. Yes. That's what I said. Death. In Knoxville, Tennessee, at the University of Tennessee an acre of woodland is secluded. Fenced off with two fences, the outer fence made of chain-links, garnished with prison grade razor wire. The inner fence is made from wood. All of this to keep curious bystanders out. The "Body Farm" as people call it lovingly was founded in 1981 by Dr. Bill Bass, a professor of anthropology at the university. The Body farm was and is still used as a
Place where studetns gather around to study the mysteries of death. The story starts off with a quaint scene.. A quiet peaceful forest, everywhere surrounded by nature in all its glory. A man sits under a tree enjoying nature.. But wait.. Take a closer look, that man is dead. What looks like a forest is actually the testing and experimenting grounds. The corpse is actually an experiment done by some students on the effdects of bacteria and such. It's all very interesting actually. They get all these dead bodies which the put to good use of course. The experiments range from body decomposition to the study of bacteria decompositions. The bodies, which are generously donated by people giving their bodies away to science. On the body farm, the majority of the bodies are naked, with a few exceptions like seeing how clothing affects the rates of something. Sorry if I'm sorta repeating some information. I'm typing on my iPod and my friends are here bothering me lol. Anyways the doctor was all like diagnosing a victim and hypothesized that the victim died not very long ago but it actually died in the civil war period. This prompted him to create the body farm so that people could practice identifying what happened to the body. Even the police use them to reenact the crimescene. The bodies are placed in some pretty random places like cars cement vaults graves bags water or just lying about. The first victim of the body farm was a hog named pig doe. They noticed that a low fly planted eggs inside of it only eighty seven seconds into the death of it. The researchers there also use chemicals on the bodies and stuff.
The reason we start decomposing so fast is because our stomach doesn't create any more stomach acid and then the bacteria grow fast. The report goes into detail about the decay time for humans. It really goes into detail, explaining how the body changes every couple of days talking about insects and bacteria. I also learned that natural soap can be produced since we accumulate a lot of body fat. Dr.bass the scientist suggested that there should be facilities like his everywhere because it could help crime units and investigators in murders and things like that.

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