Leaving your remains to science

[Kattt]

This is a subject that seems to come up all the time. I remember it being discussed in this community almost 30 years ago. It's often assumed that remains of suicides will be rejected, but that's far from true. The key is registering asap and making it look routine. To help you choose, this is an interesting read....

What happens when you donate your body to science

I visited a body farm and an anatomy lab to see what the process looks like at its best.

www.technologyreview.com

For those in the US, here's a few links to check out:

Donate My Body To Science

United Tissue Network whole-body donation program helps further today’s medical research. Make a priceless gift by learning How To Donate Your Body To Science.

unitedtissue.org

Science Care - Donate your body to science - no cost program

Science Care serves as a link between those who wish to donate their body to science, and medical researchers and educators. Cremation is provided at no cost to Science Care donors.

www.sciencecare.com

For people in the UK, there's these:

We can't find that page... — Royal College of Surgeons

www.rcseng.ac.uk

How to donate your body

The HTA is a regulator set up in 2005 following events in the 1990s that revealed a culture in hospitals of removing and retaining human organs and tissue without consent.

www.hta.gov.uk

 

[Archness]

Be careful if you sign anything to donate your body. In the future, you might get the bad ending.

Brain-Dead Women Should Be Used As Surrogates, Report Suggests | HealthNews

As some women have difficulty getting pregnant and giving birth, a new report suggests the use of brain-dead women for surrogates. Will the public agree?

healthnews.com

 

[SilentSadness]

I personally don't care for my body to be used after my death to save someone's life. We are all going to die anyway and there is no point keeping someone artificially alive. Not to mention, my body is mine anyway and I don't have an obligation to "give back" anything. But that's just my opinion I suppose.

 

[Kattt]

In the UK we have adopted the "opt out" legislature where everyone is a donor unless they actively make the effort to officially declare their objections.
I feel this is vital and that the involvement of payment for blood, blood products and/or organs MUST be eliminated. Involving payment directly led to targeting of the poor, their abuse and manipulation, crime (including illegal organ harvesting including murder for the purposes of this), the prolific spread of blood borne diseases such as hepatitis, HIV and AIDS especially amongst haemophiliacs. It also directly fuels human rights transgressions such as we see in Chinese detention camps .