Nothing divides a community more than an outdoor display of decaying human remains. Academicians are stimulated, but the neighbors not so much. Teaching taphonomy and bug science (think maggots, beetles and flies) can be smelly, but has its place in forensics when unknown and homicide victims’ remains become the center of police investigations. I like the fact that this proposed facility would be co-managed and available throughout the EU for students and research.

Lincolnshire Body Farm