The conference also heard detailed evidence yesterday on the more disturbing, but necessary, work of body identification.

These forms would obviously have been used to litigate damages and had nothing at all to do with body identification.

Body identification is a subfield of forensics concerned with identify someone from their remains.

Body identification is a subfield of forensic science wherein investigators need to identify a body.

Better transportation, communication, and laboratory techniques allow a higher rate of body identification in the Vietnam War than in previous conflicts.

Some folks were posing as members of the Medical Examiner's office, passing out forms - allegedly for body identification - which contained questions like, "Did the victim have cancer, a heart condition, etc.?"

A few miles away, secretaries typing body identification tags at a makeshift morgue for people who died in the crash were so overwhelmed by the grim task that psychologists had to be summoned to console them.

As Body Farm research continues to evolve, Bass and his research staff continue to identify new methods to calculate the postmortem interval, body identification, and any other variables that might aid criminal investigations.

In addition to body identification, Pentagon regulations allow samples to be used by a donor or surviving next-of-kin; by judicial order, or for investigation of a crime punishable by a year or more in confinement.

While the intent was for Jewish victims to be buried in the cemetery based on initial body identification, it later turned out that the only two identified victims from Titanic in the cemetery were not Jewish.

Their tearful, angry pleas over the slow pace of body identification and the bewildering morass of information from authorities served to focus unparalleled attention on an aspect of aviation accidents long overlooked by Government and industry.

Their pleas over the slow pace of body identification and their heartfelt stories caught the attention of politicians and, ultimately, of President Clinton, who proposed that an office in the Federal Government be set up to assist aviation victims' families.