Michael Neibauer of the Washington Business Journal must have enjoyed himself while deciding on a lede for this story about the District government’s search for a few cadavers. Basically, the city’s Board of Funeral Directors (which is comprised of “four professional funeral directors and one consumer member of the District of Columbia community who have an interest in serving the funeral community” and is affiliated with the city’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs) was seeking dead bodies to use for its biannual licensing exam. The board’s solicitation, which is closed now (sorry, guys), was seeking “three un-embalmed” cadavers, offering $1,500 a piece for them. The best part of the story might be that the DCRA solicitation specifically requested the corpse provider to be from Virginia, as, according to Neibauer, “no one in D.C. or Maryland could meet the District’s needs.” Draw your own conclusions, folks.