A forensic expert has condemned the UK’s failure to establish its first ever human ‘body farm’ where people donate their corpses for forensic research.
John Cassella, a professor of forensic science at Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland, is a passionate advocate for body farms, officially known as ‘human taphonomy facilities’.
Body farms are outdoor laboratories where scientific research is carried out on human bodies donated by their owners prior to death.
How exactly the bodies affect surrounding vegetation as