On Oct. 17, 2021, the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront hotel in Oregon hosted a live autopsy and dissection of a corpse, to which invited people to pay to view the dissection. Hosted by a media company called Death Science, the event was part of the Oddities & Curiosities Expo, and tickets started at $250 and went for up to $500. The body belonged to David Saunders, a 98-year-old man, who had died in August 2021 from COVID-19. Kimberly DiLeo, the Multnomah County chief medicolegal death investigator, said the format for the event was a public “pay-per-view” event. The hotel canceled the event, at which point the organizers moved to the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, according to DiLeo.

Source: New York Times November 05, 2021 21:34 UTC