Last week I saw probably most disturbing thing I had ever seen. I was watching Taboo on the National Geographic channel when they came to a segment in the show called "The Body Farm". The Body Farm is a fenced off field where researchers place bodies to observe and record how a body decays. So basically they just place dead bodies all over the place, some in shallow graves some just right on the ground and wait for them to rot. It would have to be one of the most depressing jobs in the world. Can you imagine watching people rot for a living? All of the bodies there have donated themselves (obviously when they were living) to the farm. And there is a WAITING LIST! That's right more people want their bodies to go there then they have room. The segment is VERY gross. They show the bloating process, the different stages at which bugs enter (with video of the bugs eating the corpse) and the final skeletal remains with some hair. The bodies/remains only stay there a year so it is not a final resting place. The researchers then take the remains to other researchers who do tests on those remains. Then they put the remains in a box for storage where they sit apparently forever. Oh, this is all done by the University of Tennessee and that storage facility is right under on of their stadiums. Nice!

If you want to see the segment click here but be warned it is very graphic.

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