This article is part of “Management of the dead” Set that inspects the use of the body that does not claim the right to research

Commander of the law of Texas was shocked by NBC news investigation In a medical school that makes a profit from the body of the poor and the weak to move this week to prohibit the training of the collection of money that will make it illegal in the state to conduct medical research regarding the body without consent. clear

The proposal is a direct response to NBC News ‘Dead The Dead’ series Which revealed that the health science center of North Texas University in Fortwork has received hundreds of bodies from Dallas and Torrent cut them. And rent them out to other medical equipment companies and the army. Reporters discovered dozens of families that said that they will claim that the bodies of the people they love and give the funeral suitable for them. Was told Some people still search for their relatives without knowing that they died.

Sen. Tan Parker Invoice In the Texas Legislative Assembly, on Wednesday, he said he didn’t know what the Health Science Center did until he saw the investigation of NBC News in September. The results of the research are angry and disgusted him.

Sen. Tan Parker
Texas Sen. Tan Parker said he was sorry about the discovery of NBC News.Media services of the Senate Texas

“All Texas people deserve their dignity in life and death and their rights to decide that the remains of the people they love are managed must be protected.” Likan, which includes some parts of Dallas and Tornd, said in a statement, “Should not worry that the family will worry that the remains of the people they love will be separated and rent. Without having to try to inform the next relative This law ended that training immediately and to ensure that the Texas law remains with the highest ethical standards and respects everyone. “

In addition to the legislation, the report of NBC News has sparked widespread changes: the health science center has suspended his body donation project, shooting officers who are leaders and said that they will stop receiving the body without claiming rights. Boston Science and Medical Equipment and other research companies, including the Army Said that they will think again about the preparation with the center And follow the steps to ensure that they will not use a body that does not claim in the future Congress members The answer you wantAnd staff in Tarrant Use the policy To ensure that the body that does not claim the right to be treated with dignity

The report also brought the answer to the family that was left in the dark about what happened to the people they loved. Tim Leggett learned from NBC News last year that his brother Dale, 71 years old, Buff’s history. World War II died alone at the hospital in Tarrant County in May 2023, without notifying Leggett, the Science Center, which sent his remains from the state to the company. Medical studies that seek profit He applauded Parker’s efforts to prohibit training.

Tim Leggett at his house in Fort Worth
Tim Leggett Learn his brother’s death from NBC News.Zerb Mellish for NBC news

“It is correct and wrong, especially when talking about the way we treat each other, whether while we are still alive or dead,” Leggett said, which was finally able to receive his brother’s ashes after seeing the name. Of him in A NBC News and Noticias Telemundo– “This billing is another good step in making sure that this will not happen to other families.”

Leggett and almost a dozen of other families learned what happened to their relatives from NBC News and the six TELEMUNDO Noticias reporters. Those families found their relatives in the news channel published.

Kimberly Patman, who has been told from NBC News that her ex -husband’s body is Victor Honey, was cut and rented out and said that she welcome Parker’s bill.

“I am very grateful that they move forward so that what happened to Victor and others will not happen again,” Patman said.

Kimberly Patman, former Victor C. Honey's wife
Kimberly Patman discovered from NBC News that her ex -husband was cut and rented by Texas Medical School.Zerb Mellish for NBC news

Darling, homeless veterans who struggle with mental illness in Dallas in 2022, without anyone notifying his family. The health science center then dissected his body and renting parts for two medical companies and the Army. After learning about his death in the spring, his family burned the cremation in the national cemetery. Dallas-Fort worm, the experience shook Patman with children and brothers. That is Honey’s adult

“You can’t fully understand the impact unless it happens to your family,” said Patman.

Parker said that his charge will prohibit donating the body that does not claim the right to medical schools or personal brokers, unless that person agrees to donate before they die – or if licensed. From the next relative

If used, measures will prevent the actions of the health science center repeatedly.

In addition, Texas will be one of the few states that will prohibit research on the dead without rights – the family cannot manage the funeral or cannot access. The practice is legal in most states. But was seen to be increasingly unethical Anatomy and Leaders in the body donation industry Who said that doctors and scientists should deal with the dead with respect as well as living patients?

Officials in North Texas reasoned that the body was not claimed to the Health Science Center by saying that the agreement helps the local government save the cost of burial and burn the students to train students and Doctors and support for research on life saving, but NBC News found that the Office of Medical Auditors in Dallas and Tarrant and the staff at the Health Science Center cannot contact relatives who can access before announcing no bodies. right

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Through the front of the documents and information received from thousands of public recording requests, reporters said that Dallas and Tarrant sent the bodies that have not been claimed by approximately 2,350 rights to the health science center since 2019, more than 830 in the United States. ” – Selected for dissection and education. Medical Equipment Center and Training Company $ 649 for the leader, $ 330 for one feet and $ 1,400 for the entire body. Body trade helps to bring approximately 2.5 million dollars per year.

The dead, including veterans, soldiers who struggle with drug addiction and mental illness and Young murder victim– While some people do not contact their relatives, family, say they love and miss them and will come out to demand their bodies if they know they die.

After the NBC News, the research sharing with the health science center of the school proposed to regret the family and accepted the problem that the reporters discovered. Supervise the body’s body project of the Northest University of Northest University, “said the center in a statement last year.

Parker’s bill, which may be resolved when the legislature may be debated in the Texas Senate Committee. Parker’s office said that he was working to receive a collection of friends who submitted in the house of Texas and hoped to receive support from the two partys.

Eli Shupe, a biological player at the University of Texas at Arington, said Parker’s bill will announce that “changes in important places” in protecting the remains from the wrong use of the Shupe. Speaking against the health science center of the science center that has no rights when she learned the first training three years ago.

“Texas will go from a justice state for uncertainty and ethical with models for others to follow,” she said. “Very little state has this law. We will be the true leader in the country. “