Talk:Body farm

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I think this is actually in Knoxville not to the south. It's in the community of Vestal I think. If anyone knows fix the location. You can't Google this stuff. BDSIII 03:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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The second body farm in the USA has been opened in Cullowhee, North Carolina at Western Carolina University. I have updated this article to a more general description of a Body Farm since WCU also uses the term to describe their facility. Please let me know what all of you think and make any changes you see fit. User: NCMattJ 15:20, 28 August 2006 (EDT)

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I think that the body farm is really relative to help police and detectives to solve crimes. I think the body farm that is in Knoxville, Tennessee is an awesome way to learn

"The original UT Body Farm..."
In the Popular Culture section's opening statement, it says: "The original UT Body Farm..." which is referring to the University of Tennessee. I'm going to add periods so that it says "U.T." so that it doesn't look like the postal abbreviation for Utah. I'm changing both occurances of "UT". If anybody thinks that this could be handled more properly or reworded in a more sensible way, please discuss. 67.161.208.225 (talk) 03:36, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Make that 5 occurences that I'll change, instead of 2. 67.161.208.225 (talk) 03:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
I have done some rewording which I think has sufficiently clarified this article to justify the removal of the "confusing" tag. Refs have obviously been added since the "refs" and "citations" tags were put I place, and I have added a couple more citations and the major ref on this subject (Bill Bass's book), which I think justifies the removal of the refs tag too. I've left the "citations" tag in place for now because the article does merit more cites, probably from the Bass book in re the Knoxville facility and for the third facility when it opens this Spring. I have a copy of Bass and will add extra cites as soon as I can. -- 92.10.20.45 (talk) 13:37, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Further to my unsigned edit above, extra cites now in place and cite template removed. -- Karenjc (talk) 12:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Forensic Facilities
The Texas State language and information needs to be updated. The second paragraph sounds confusing and as if it hasn't been opened, whereas the first says otherwise. I cleaned it up a bit, so hopefully it's not confusing. It has, in fact, been operational for quite some time and has accepted a little over a dozen donations over the past year. It has also produced published student papers and theses, so I'll link to at least one of these. I'll update information on donation too, since it is also a willed-program (defining what a willed-program is would be beneficial as well).

Also, the language of the "body farm" is more slang than anything else. It can be viewed as offensive to some, since donors are people and the research has a specific, beneficial purpose rather something grotesque. For example, these facilities are sometimes called outdoor research facilities. This probably should be mentioned somewhere in the article. The rarity of these facilities and skeletal collections might something to include as well.

Should there be a section on the ethical implications of working with human cadavers?

The page originally had Sam Houston with the largest facilities, but the sources I find say that Texas State has 7 acres opposed to their 1, and 4200 acres at the ranch where they are located as opposed to 247 acres at Sam Houston State.

I'm unable to find news articles or other sources on the Western Carolina University facility. Is it still operational? What are the ethics of their donation program? Bluebones (talk) 11:18, 28 November 2009 (UTC)bluebones

NecroSearch International
There is a group called NecroSearch International (http://necrosearch.org/) that had a site at the Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Facility south of Littleton, Colorado and has used pigs as surrogates for human corpses for outdoor decomposition studies since 1986 (see, e.g., this 1995 article, this 2008 article, and this 2009 article). The 2008 article says the site is in Douglas County. I'm not sure whether that is their first or only site or not, or whether they still use only pigs. NecroSearch was the subject of a book,. They are also mentioned at Cold Case Files, Forensic Files (season 9) and Ted Bundy. Roughly a decade has passed since I read the book, but I remember reading of their use of one or more such sites that don't seem to currently be mentioned in this article. —BarrelProof (talk) 01:22, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Three Suggestions for Improvement
One suggestion is that adding more information for “Opposition To Body Farms” section will improve the article. This section talks about the opposition or actual case that has been a problem because of body farm. But, more solutions that can solve these problems and actions for opposition that university or organization took need to be added under this section. As a reader, this change will make more informative article by giving neutral information and making clear this section. Another thing I would add to the article would be more information on the medical practices which stem from body farms. We learned about this in class so the information would be easily accessible to add to this section. One thing in particular I would add in the section would be about how some medical display skeletons come from body farms. Lastly, I would recommend clarifying what is studied in the body farms that are first talked about. It is not clear whether or not decomposing human corpses are being studied because it is not obvious in the beginning and then is followed by discussing how pigs are used to study decomposition. Discoveries found by these body farm facilities would be an interesting subsection and will aid to the importance of this article. Did these body farms aid in forensic science or medical science in some way? It is great that this article discusses what these facilities are observing, but maybe discuss the process of these observations. Kinggab3 (talk) 23:46, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Colorado Mesa University location
NPR recently (within the last couple weeks) did a story on this facility. Where is it located? And yes, I mean the actual coordinates. Thanks --RThompson82 (talk) 00:40, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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No facility in UK
Looks like someone grossly misread https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/corpses-left-rot-farm-name-7325304. Thanks for fixing! 151.41.224.60 (talk) 04:07, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

== El objetivo era obtener una mejor comprensión del proceso de descomposición, permitiendo el desarrollo de técnicas para extraer información como el momento y las circunstancias de la muerte de los restos humanos ==

Puta 172.58.204.1 (talk) 21:50, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science
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