You may have heard this story before. A great-grandmother named Doris

donated her body to science. Her family believed her cadaver would be used to

aid an Alzheimer's research,

but she was actually used to test explosives instead.

This story has made its rounds on the internet

for years now, and every once in a while it pops back up,

reminding about those that might take advantage

of a grieving family.

However, you may not know the story beneath the headline.

Jim Stoffer, Doris's son, did read the fine print carefully.

The biological resource center, the organization that broke her body,

along with many others for research,

had required Jim to sign an authorization form. On that paperwork, he checked a box that prohibits military, traffic safety, and other non-medical experiments to be performed on his mother's body.

This isn't just a story of a woman's body being used to test explosives without her family's

knowledge.

This is a story of her body being used to test explosives with her family's explicit refusal.

And while both scenarios are disturbing, only the latter gives the Stoffers any type of legal recourse.

But how can this happen you might ask?

Why didn't the Army, the ones that performed the tests of Doris,

ensure that they had the family's permission?

Well, that's the catch. The Army said that they never

received any consent forms from the BRC. Instead, officials, quote, relied on assurances from

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