Donating your body to science when you die

I know a lady who donated herself a couple of weeks back, she had Cancer.

I think there are multiple purposes from training students, stuff to do with crime, testing of various medical tools, chemicals or who knows what other testing.

My main worry would be being given to the military for testing on the quiet or something like that.
 
Last edited:
Definitely don't want to be cremated, it seems such a waste of good compost and really energy intensive. Ideally I'd be buried in an eco coffin (just plain wood) or fed to wild animals or something.
 
m\My sister who is a Doc, said never donate your body, you will end up with medical students. She went to his funeral with her colleagues when they finished, very strange she said. They only knew him when he was dead, everyone else there knew him when he was alive....
 
Decided against it when a man gave his dead mum to science, she later found out a bomb was Strapped to it and blown sky high by the military.

Its not the first time either
 
martin363 said:
m\My sister who is a Doc, said never donate your body, you will end up with medical students. She went to his funeral with her colleagues when they finished, very strange she said. They only knew him when he was dead, everyone else there knew him when he was alive....
Click to expand...
Well to be fair that's the whole point, the medical students are supposed to get them, if your sisters a doc then she has trained on them so not sure how she didn't know this.

Where did you think they went? Apart from the army stealing or buying them for bomb testing.
 
It is super interesting actually. The people I know who work in a anatomy lab are extremely passionate about their work and have so much care and empathy for their donors. If you find a centre and give them a call they will be very happy to talk it over and will be best people to talk about the process.

What I learned from my colleagues is that the body needs to be in good condition so they do not just accept anyone. Majority do not get chosen and the numbers have been low due to covid as well. They keep the bodies for a number of years and at the end are allowed to keep a % (cant remember exact number) of the donors weight back for science.

I am quite queasy so I expected to feel creeped out by the lab and the donors/specimens but when I was given a tour of the anatomy lab it ended up being extremely interesting and I learned a lot from just one hour there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom