Would you consider donating your body?

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Would you consider donating your entire body to medical research after your death? I received a very interesting link http://www.anatomicgift.com/ Thought it was fascinating. I am already an organ donor myself, figure I am dead so I won't know where my parts are going! ;) :wave:
 
Oh, my grandmother chose to donate her body... It was really sad for the family because she refused to have a funeral. Its been over three months and we still haven't received the ashes from the remains not used. Still waiting for closure.

Donation may seem like a selfless act of generosity...
but please consider your loved one's opinions/feelings before making a choice.
 
I see both points of view. I always tell my family to cremate me and get rid of the ashes somewhere... Who cares?? Except the people who love you and are left behind. And, in my death, no matter where I'm at, I want at least the peace of knowing that I did the best I could to care for those who are left behind...

I would ask my loved ones before doing this. But it's an incredible gift to give...
 
There's not going to be enough left for them to do anything with.
 
I'm on the organ donor list. Parts can be donated to help save lives, but as much as I love science I DO NOT want to be on some cutting board (I forgot the technical name for it :o ) in ANY school. Whatever is left, I want cremated.
 
I plan on donating my organs, but not my whole body. I have also already purchased a funeral plan so that when I die, the funeral is already paid for. My family won't have to choose a casket, the flowers, or anything else since I've already done so.

And butty, I always say: "When I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes spread all over my mother's house so she can pick up after me one more time." My mom laughs at this every time I say it.
 
I want to donate my body--what am I going to need it for?--but my husband thinks that's really weird. So I don't know what will happen.

I would want my family to have some sort of funeral or service or something for closure, but I'm not sure why a body or ashes is necessary for closure. I guess I haven't lost anyone really close so maybe I don't know what it is to need closure.
 
spazntwitch said:
I always say: "When I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes spread all over my mother's house so she can pick up after me one more time." My mom laughs at this every time I say it.
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LOL :claps:

where's angelgrammi??!! she needs to see this...
 
spazntwitch said:
"When I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes spread all over my mother's house so she can pick up after me one more time." My mom laughs at this every time I say it.
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I have never heard this before, but I LOVE it!!
 
And butty said:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Way to dam funny! Like you I have plans for cremation, then having my ashes sprinkles off the boat. Figure I would add to the Chesapeake Bay pollution! :tongue:
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I was trying to figure out what to do with my body and read this book Stiff: Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach has some interesting stuff you can donate your body to , personally the firing squad sounded amusing.
 
Getting rid of the body has always been a problem. Since I plan to die at a ripe old age I can't imagine what good the old meat will be to anyone anyhow. Cremation for me and scatter the ashes. Those cemetery plots have always impressed me as a very poor investment for the future.
 
I thought of it. You can get a donation card to carry with you or put on your DL.

After I read about the organ harvest I got turned off. Basically you are sliced stem to stern & each specialist comes & takes what they want.

You can donate to Stanford & you get the ashes back in a year.
 
So I'll be like a biological buffet? Awesome.

I have no need for my corporeal form once I have ascended. They can kick it like a football, make a jacket out of my skin, I dont care. In my will I will bequeath my tattoos to a friend and the scientists can do as they please.
 
JerryP said:
Getting rid of the body has always been a problem. Since I plan to die at a ripe old age I can't imagine what good the old meat will be to anyone anyhow. Cremation for me and scatter the ashes. Those cemetery plots have always impressed me as a very poor investment for the future.
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morriefisher said:
I thought of it. You can get a donation card to carry with you or put on your DL.

After I read about the organ harvest I got turned off. Basically you are sliced stem to stern & each specialist comes & takes what they want.

You can donate to Stanford & you get the ashes back in a year.
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Ugggh...Don't get me started! I wrote a term paper in Business Ethics regarding this very topic.

People would be really gossed out & turned off to organ donation if they knew what was really happening! Even if you consider yourself old and worn out, products can be harvested. For instance, big $$$ is made from cadaver skin to manufacture beauty injectables. Your bones can be ground to make a cement. (bone glue for fractures) Almost every part can be used for somthing. Each body can be worth up to $100,000 to biotech companies.
LATimes

By U.S. law, you cannot profit by selling body parts BUT charitable institutions can bend the law by charging a lucrative "transport fee" to the processors. Altruistic individuals believe that they're benefiting society and helping others live; in fact, they're being mislead by greedy "non-profits" who launch agressive donation campaigns.

A few years ago U.C.L.A. was involved in scandalous conduct. For at least six years, their director, Henry Reid sold body parts to a body broker (Ernest Nelson) and pocketed at least $700,000. The broker then sold some of the parts to Johnston & Johnston. Nelson, Reid and others were arrested but J&J denied culpability.
UCLA cadaver scandal

Organ/Tissue benefactors have been put at risk for contracting disease. The FDA has shut down tissue suppliers who falsified records on ineligible cadavers & processing. Some died of drug use & cancer-thereby putting thousands at risk for contracting HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis.
Risky Donations

I've found many other stories of misconduct. These are not isolated instances. I'd like to share more but it would really scare & shock my fellow spoofers.

I support organ donation-its a wonderful gift... but the system needs major change to prevent abuse.
 
Chatting with my mother-in-law, I asked, "Have you heard
of this company that takes the cremated ashes of your loved one
and then compresses the carbon into a diamond?

"Yes," she said, smirking. "It brings a whole new meaning to the
phrase "family jewels."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
clubchick said:
you got leprosy or what???
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I intend to be completely worn out and used up. I don't want anyone looking in my casket and commenting on how good I look. I want them to say "WOW, what the (*&^%% happened to him???
 
Mirancat said:
Ugggh...Don't get me started! I wrote a term paper in Business Ethics regarding this very topic.

People would be really gossed out & turned off to organ donation if they knew what was really happening! Even if you consider yourself old and worn out, products can be harvested. For instance, big $$$ is made from cadaver skin to manufacture beauty injectables. Your bones can be ground to make a cement. (bone glue for fractures) Almost every part can be used for somthing. Each body can be worth up to $100,000 to biotech companies.
LATimes

By U.S. law, you cannot profit by selling body parts BUT charitable institutions can bend the law by charging a lucrative "transport fee" to the processors. Altruistic individuals believe that they're benefiting society and helping others live; in fact, they're being mislead by greedy "non-profits" who launch agressive donation campaigns.

A few years ago U.C.L.A. was involved in scandalous conduct. For at least six years, their director, Henry Reid sold body parts to a body broker (Ernest Nelson) and pocketed at least $700,000. The broker then sold some of the parts to Johnston & Johnston. Nelson, Reid and others were arrested but J&J denied culpability.
UCLA cadaver scandal

Organ/Tissue benefactors have been put at risk for contracting disease. The FDA has shut down tissue suppliers who falsified records on ineligible cadavers & processing. Some died of drug use & cancer-thereby putting thousands at risk for contracting HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis.
Risky Donations

I've found many other stories of misconduct. These are not isolated instances. I'd like to share more but it would really scare & shock my fellow spoofers.

I support organ donation-its a wonderful gift... but the system needs major change to prevent abuse.
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The system might be corrupt and expensive, but, if no one donated, people would die, children would die. Once your dead, it's of no use to you anymore......might as well 'bless' someone else, even if there's a profit to be made by others.
 
DanC said:
I intend to be completely worn out and used up. I don't want anyone looking in my casket and commenting on how good I look. I want them to say "WOW, what the (*&^%% happened to him???
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Uhhh, Dan....they say that now.....:theyareon
 
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