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`Body Farm creator to speak at museum

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 20 November 2004
By Paul Clark, Staff Writer Nov. 19, 2004 ASHEVILLE - A few years ago, between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn., where Interstate 75 crosses over the Hiwassee River, there was a horrible accident. Heavy fog rolling over the highway caused such an obstruction that several cars crashed into one another. One of them was a truck, driven by a man who got out once he became entangled in the wreckage. As he was standing there, another truck slammed into him. Dr. Bill Bass, noted forensic anthropologist, examined the remains. In a testament to the state of his science, Bass determined which way the man was looking when he got hit. Bass brings that sort of expertise, plus his association with the "Body Farm" in Knoxville, to Colburn Earth Science Museum on Sunday. He'll take listeners through the decomposition of the human body and point out the clues that indicate how a person died. Bass has helped the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in hundreds of cases. He has written or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications, many based on murder cases and other mysteries he has helped to prosecute or solve. But he's most famous for creating and running the three- acre "Body Farm." It's actually called the Anthropology Research Facility but got its nickname thanks to a best- selling Patricia Cornwell novel that featured the facility. The Body Farm is where forensic anthropology students study what happens after a person dies. John Williams knows a lot of the people Bass has trained. Williams heads Western Carolina University's new forensic anthropology program and does much what Bass does. He thinks a lot of Bass and knows why he's so hot right now. "There's a lot of interest in the forensic sciences right now. I'm sure you're familiar with `CSI,'" Williams said. Court TV, The Learning Channel, Discovery - there's a lot of television about solving crimes by examining decaying clues. Bass lectures about 150 times a year, mostly to law enforcement agencies, funeral homes, teachers and students. But the slides he's bringing to Colburn museum, he's shown only once before. They're not for the faint-of-heart. They're of people who have been shot or killed themselves, of bodies exhumed. "People are interested in dead people," Bass said in a phone interview from his home in Tennessee. "In our culture for some reason, we just don't look at dead bodies. Many people are interested in what happens to you." Oddly, the cover of the American version of his new book "Death's Acre" has a view of what you (or maybe a body, if it could see) would see looking up through trees. The British edition has a skeleton in the picture. "Europeans are much more comfortable with death than we are," Bass said. The French version of the book has lots of graphic photos. Bass' lectures are so titillating not only because of the subject manner but because of the relaxed, engaging way Bass talks. A gifted teacher, he has been named "National Professor of the Year" by the Council for Advancement of Support of Education. "I tell good stories," he said. "These are interesting, exciting kinds of stories. But not everyone's interested, obviously." http://www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/news/71098.shtml

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries