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WCU says body farm will be small

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 20 July 2006
by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it July 20, 2006 CULLOWHEE – A fenced area that will house bodies for scientific study will be about the size of a two-car garage and will be half a mile from the nearest of six homes along Little Savannah Road in Jackson County, Western Carolina University said this afternoon. WCU said it expects to get its first bodies as soon as late summer. The facility, a fenced lot, will allow scientist to study how bodies decompose in the Western North Carolina environment. The body farm – only the second in the United States – will not be visible from more than 50 yards, according to a letter the university mailed to residents on Monday. It will allow scientists to study up to six bodies at a time. WCU picked the site, part of a 344-acre university-owned tract, after efforts to build a similar facility on another part of campus failed last year when nearby residents complained, said John Williams, the school’s director of forensic anthropology. The only other body farm in the United States is at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The WCU facility will help students prepare for careers in forensics, train law enforcement officers, and assist local police and sheriff’s departments with crime scene investigations. It will also help scientist determine how WNC’s unique climate influences decay. Leila Tvedt, assistant vice chancellor of public relations, said today that a chain-link fence will keep people out of the area and a wooden privacy fence will block the bodies from sight. Researchers will use still cameras, video cameras and site visits to study the bodies. She said the road to the site, which has not yet been prepared, might have a chain across it to block access and will be patrolled by campus police. But it won’t have a big sign that identifies the facility and says keep out. “That is just a red flag that says come on down,” Tvedt said. Williams said the privacy fence would keep the odors from the decomposing bodies contained. “And generally they dissipate rather shortly from the facility,” he said. “It should not be detectable at all.” The bodies come from the N.C. Office of the State Medical Examiner. They are the bodies of people who have donated themselves to science, Tvedt said. To respect the dead, Williams requires his students to use the names of the people to identify the bodies they are studying instead of a number or some other code, Tvedt said. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS01/60720010/1100

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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