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Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die?

Amid vendors offering caskets, urns and other tools of the trade at the Baltimore Convention Center, Sam Sieber enthusiastically described how, through a scientific process, heated water can rapidly decompose a human body.

Ugandan lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday to ban any trade in human body parts, after a series of media reports about criminals using force and trickery to take people's organs.

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Unprecedented heat waves are on the rise as the climate gets hotter. But experts say the country's heat warning system may be leading the public to underestimate the dangers.

"You've got your wrists, and what are your wrists on the bottom half? Your ankles!"

Professors explain how cadavers play vital role in medical teaching and research.

Officials say remains were stolen from University of Arkansas mortuary

His down-to-earth clothing was meant to celebrate the human body regardless of race, build, size or age.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Department of Corrections officials who will oversee executions by the electric chair and firing squad in South Carolina do not have the expertise to know how electric voltages or bullets affect the human body to the point of death, argue attorneys who represent three men awaiting…

Not merely a problem of the developing world, extreme heat can kill in cities even when A/C is nearby