When the body of a loved one is donated to the Harvard Anatomical Gift Program, there should be no doubt that the generous gift is being used for science. There is doubt. Breanna Ehrlich eloquently explains the disturbing story.
Were those ashes — the ones they’d received in a plain black box in the mail from Harvard, the ones they’d so carefully divided up among their family members to scatter at sea, the last remaining physical presence of their mother — possibly not even their mother at all?
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