Like other research institutions, the Cracker County Institute of Agriculture and Technology has a protocol for those situations where human subjects are involved. However, one of the things that attracted Dr Betsy Mountwell to the Institute was that its Human Subjects Program had a protocol that largely was concerned with the safe disposal of human remains. Betsy's research required many of her laboratory assistants to make the ultimate sacrifice for science, and at her previous university the questions she faced about the number of her assistants' disappearances were beginning to become uncomfortable. Therefore, her recruitment by the CCIAT was as timely as it was welcome.
As has been noted, Betsy strongly believes in involving herself personally in her research. While the project illustrated here was progressing rapidly to term, the progress was a bit more rapid than Betsy had planned, and she was anxious to discover if she could truly bear the final result of this experiment. She did not want to introduce any variables, such as an X-ray, into this protocol, so an autopsy on an unadulterated version of the experiment was somewhat urgently needed.
While not quite willing, Betsy's assistant was quite ready and able to provide the means to answer the professor's critical question. And though it was not the most efficient way to prepare the human subject for her autopsy, she knew her benefactors from the Cracker County Clan would find it quite entertaining!
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