{
  "id": 17197856,
  "title": "Body Snatchers and the Murky Process of Whole-Body Donation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/body-snatchers-and-the-murky-process-of-whole-body-donation",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-30T07:00:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Undark",
    "slug": "undark",
    "url": "https://undark.org/2026/10/30/body-snatchers-murky-whole-body-donation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Opinion | Each year, more than 20,000 people in the U.S. donate their bodies to science after death. But the programs that handle whole-body donations lack oversight, with inconsistencies in standards of consent, transparency, and accountability. The result is reminiscent of the body-snatching practices of years past.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}