Will you be donating your body to Science?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Location
Perth Western Australia
I am down as an Organ Donor.
Also thinking about donating my body to Science
Have you watched the Autopsy videos of Dr Gunther von Hagens?
The medical profession needs bodies so it can help the future of Mankind.

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I'm an organ donor on my drivers license so if I'm in an accident or something, they can salvage any parts they want. I'm not sure what happens if I die of a heart attack or somebody shoots me.

My will stipulates that I am to be cremated. Maybe I should add something stating that scientists can take whatever they want before cremating me.
 
Many, many years ago I had it put on my driver's license to donate any organ they needed.

Well after many surgeries & replacement parts I could be called the million dollar man. Not much left for them to use.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Science needs" healthy" dead bodies. And most of us, when we pass away, are not in that category. As for me, what ever they can use, they can have. Hell, I ain't using it.
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They get the dead ones from car accidents, suicide, or other means that young people die.
 
Science may be the only entity on Earth that would want my body!:LOL::D:oops:;) I had thought of donating it before but my family will probably take care of disposing of me when my life is over and they never do what I say anyhow...so why bother telling them now. :LOL:
 
I think maybe some of you are confusing being an organ donor with leaving your body to science. If you're going to donate an organ of course it needs to be a healthy one, but the full body donation is for teaching classes to medical students and I thought it could be in any shape.

My father left his body to science. He was 86 and was emaciated from strokes, so, of course, his body was in bad shape, but they were still grateful to have him. The people who ran the nursing home where he died, already had him listed as a donor, and called the medical school immediately. They had to sort of rush me out of the room so they could prepare him to be transported.

I'm an organ donor, but I wont be donating my body to science, simply because I think it would upset my son. I'll just be cremated.
 
They weren't able to harvest any organs from my late husband because he was D.O.A., but they were able to use his corneas, skin (for temporary skin grafts on burn patients), leg bones (for bone grafts) and tendons (tendon grafts).

I received a nice letter from the donation people giving me the final count of people who had received grafts from him. It was comforting.
 
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