99-year-old woman's body had organs in the wrong place

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
An Oregon woman donated her body to science, not knowing she had a rare condition. Her organs were all in the wrong place.

Rose Marie Bentley died of natural causes at the age of 99.
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When students at Oregon Health and Science University opened her body, they saw her organs were reversed.

A professor says one in 50 million people born with Bentley's condition live long enough to become adults, yet she lived to be 99 years old.
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Her daughter told the university that her mother would've loved knowing she was different.
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