You know, I was never aware of the distinction. I mean if I let them take my heart, why wouldn't I let them take my leg?
I only signed over to allow my organs and tissue to be used in transplants that's it. Are you ok with knowing this is where your body may end up? Are there any of the following you would not want your body used for? Bodies may be split up, with the head sent to students learning brain surgery or nose jobs while the legs are packed off to students learning knee surgery. Researchers in criminal forensics expose cadavers to various environments and observe how they rot. Cadaver research in automobile crash tests contributed to the development and testing of such devices as lap-shoulder belts, air bags, dashboard padding, and safer windshields. Most current crash-testing uses dummies, but some experts question whether the dummies accurately reproduce the damage done to a real human head, for instance. Corpses are used to test military equipment such as body armor. Testing footwear designed to protect against land mines has been controversial--apparently some people are offended that a body donated to science would be blown up rather than patiently sliced into tiny pieces. Medical-instrument firms find corpses helpful for instructing doctors in the use of new devices or procedures; the training process involves learning from mistakes, which works out better when the subject is already dead. Artificial joints are often tested on cadavers; meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies pick up the odd gland for hormone extraction.
Well, no... if you're dead, you can't object, can you?? But I know what you mean. The only caveat I'd place on the use of my remains is that a fee be charged for their use in commercial enterprise, and that royalties be paid if they are used in research that later generates income.
actually if i wasnt going to donate my organs i would love to be put in a block of jelly and sliced apart so that people could see all my insidesPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! i saw this at an anatomy expo and it looked coolPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that! I think I do significant re-wording edits on about half my posts, and probably 90% of the more substantial ones.
Almost? What are you against? I'll be dead so I don't care a bit what happens to my body EXCEPT that it not be buried. A shameful expensive waste
Well, If the Necrophil Society wants my body, I might have to object. I know, sexy in life, sexy in death, but still... Also I don't want to end up in a Body Farm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Farm I also wouldn't want to be a Halloween decoration, because I hate Halloween...
The upside of donating your body. I believe that donating your body isn't bad at all. I mean what is your dead body going to do anyway?
I want to be buried in the earth with no chemicals/preservatives. I want my body to decompose into the earth and continue the circle of life. We all come from the earth and should die into it as to help make up other life. Life after death if you will.
I am not sure what should be done to my body when I die. I know for sure I want nothing expensive, nothing that would burden anyone unnecessarily. I want whatever is easiest, but I wonder whether donating my body would be worth it. I want whatever happens to my body to be up to someone else, so I guess I'll recommend it to them.
I want to be fed to some Alsatians, Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Like Bridget Jones
