• The nickname of a two and a half
acre research facility in Tennessee
developed in 1980 by Bill Bass where bodies are placed in various conditions and allowed to decompose.
Its main purpose is to observe and understand the processes and timetable of postmortem decay. Over the years it has
helped to improve the ability to
determine "time since death" in murder cases.
• Hic locus est ubi mortui viveuntes docent.
• This is the
place where the dead teach the living.