Man who donated his mom's body for dementia research learns it was strapped to a chair and blown up

An Arizona man has spoken out about the heartbreak he endured when learning that the body of his mother, which he donated to a medical research center, was sold off to the military and blown up in a ‘blast testing’ experiment. Scroll down for video Doris Stauffer, 73, died five-years ago in hospice care following a several year battle with Alzheimer’s, despite doctors saying she didn’t carry the gene for the disease However, when she died in 2014, her neurologist was unable to accept her remains so her son, Jim, reached out to a number of other donation facilities who he hoped would continue the investigation into his mother’s condition. After sending those ashes back to her son, the company sold and shipped the rest of Stauffer's body – including her brain - to a taxpayer-funded research ‘blast testing’ project for the U.S. Army. Several days later he received a wooden box that contained the 'majority' of his mother’s ashes, however no information was provided about how Doris’ body was used or where the rest of her remains were Another three years would pass before he learned what really happened to his mother, when a reporter from Reuters sent him a series of documents. ‘Every time there’s a memory, every time there’s a photograph you look at there’s this ugly thing that happened just right there staring right at you.’ Doris’ cadaver was then strapped into a chair on ‘some sort of apparatus’ and an explosive device was detonated beneath her The idea of the experiment was to ‘get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED’ Jim is one of 33 plaintiffs named against in a lawsuit against BRC and its owner Stephen Gore, in which the gruesome details of how the center misused loved ones' bodies is compared to the horror novel Frankenstein.