rahoi.com 

Donating one's body to science sounds like a noble sacrifice, but the reality more often is probably something like this:

SEATTLE — The frozen human head arrived at the laboratory like the others — by courier, double-bagged with dry ice in a foam-lined box marked "perishable."

The researchers thawed the head and anchored its protruding spine in an acrylic mold. They slid a fighter pilot's helmet over the head and tightened the chin strap. With the head wrapped in pantyhose, nobody had to look at the face.

The test — a neck injury study for the Air Force — was about to begin.

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This head had traveled far.

It belonged to 51-year-old Michael Palmore of Searcy, Ark.

This is the story of his afterlife.