COVID-19 complications in August. Instead she learned, after the fact, that his body underwent a public autopsy in an Oregon hotel ballroom, and that tickets were sold to see the body dissected.“I didn’t know he was going to be … put on display like a performing bear or something,” Saunders told NBC News of her husband, David, a Second World War army veteran who died at the age of 98.
Salmon Arm, B.C. teenage love triangle killer gets day parole The autopsy’s 70 spectators paid between $100 and $500 to watch the show, which was put on by the company Death Science as part of the travelling Oddities and Curiosities Expo.Saunders learned about her late husband’s participation in the autopsy after a photojournalist from a Seattle news station.