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An audit released in December 2000 found that the former director of the UC Irvine cadaver program misappropriated money and tried to cover it up. The audit confirmed that donated cadavers had been used without university permission in a private anatomy class in the willed body morgue and that families may have received the wrong remains or been improperly billed for the return of their relatives' ashes. The former director denied wrongdoing.
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Origins: As Brunvand notes, the [L]egend of a friend or relative turning up as a cadaver for dissection has circulated for centuries. (It has been told, for example, concerning the corpse of English novelist Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, who died in 1768.) An actual occurrence of this legend took place in early 1982 at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, where a student discovered that one of the nine cadavers presented to the class (but not the one she was assigned to dissect) was her great aunt. (Even more coincidentally, the student and her aunt had at one time discussed the merits of donating one's body to medical science.) A different cadaver was immediately substituted by the state anatomical board.
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