Death is the life of Fla. body farm advocate

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: October 7, 2007| Author: Audra D.S. Burch | Copyright information

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Heather Walsh-Haney bursts through the door and hurries past the long table where the skeleton of a man who was once a professor lies, past the rows of human skulls, the candles and the old leather-bound books until she stops and takes a breath.

"It smells a little like decomposition in here," says Walsh- Haney, a forensic anthropologist who hopes to open Florida's first body farm. "Sweet and musty, don't you think?"

At 39, she already spends most of her days w...

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