Would you donate your body to science after you die?
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i have a few medical problems that have caused me alot of pain during my life, i hope that after my death i can save people like me from that pain... and knowing that will give me peace
Well... it really depends. If I have a rare medical condition, I would donate my body to help others prevent/treat it. However, if everything goes normal, I would just want to rest in peace, because I like naps.
For me not donating would be a sin. The Bible tells us to help your fellow man. If you can save a life wouldn't God expect you to. Plus I'm a diabetic. Witch is out of control. I would be proud that by doing it they might find out why and learn how to help others with the same problem.
Yes, Only Vital Organs But no not my whole body!!! Respect, you never know, I took anatomy in college and the respect toward the cadaver was not well respected, the classmates peeked at the face. took pictures with theyre phones and even moved the cadaver to sexual positions...
Yeah, many people believe that by donating their body to science that it will go for a good use, and it should but let me tell you a little story...
My husband used to work for a medical institute years ago, since then he has stayed in contact with some of the people that he worked with such as a woman named Janice Helper.
Back in February Janice hired my husband to take some body parts to Vegas for some training conference. This was some medical company that makes instruments, so they ordered 2 human legs( knees down to the feet) and two arms (shoulders on down ).
The training was for the salespeople, so that they could show the doctors how to use their equipment.
Janice shipped the arms to us and then we had to go to Pheonix to pick up the legs,
When we got to Vegas, the sales seminar only used one leg specimen and one arm specimen, and when they were done they were packed pack in dry ice and we brought them back.
We got back on Feb 9th, today is May 4, and we still have those specimens!! I have emailed that lady several time, and she continues to Lie and say that she will be by to pick them up or make arrangements to pick them up, and she hasn't.
I think that it is a shame that those people who chose to donate their body to science ended up being used to help finance someones pocket book!
I do not know what to do other than to email her everyday in hopes that she will pick them up.
I used to think that when you donate your body to science that it would be used for medical purposes, but as I can clearly see these specimens have been used for profit only.
If anyone has any suggestions on what organization I can contact to take these things I would be greatly appreciated.
So I say to you think again when you decide that you want to donate your body, you might end up in someone's garage for months!
If you donate to science your family could have the cremaed remains back in a few years, once they are done with the parts-practiceing surgeries and such. I might would give my body to science for that, but I do not think I would be a donor, becuase I do not trust them, they might want my parts more than they want me to live..............its happened before. If you give your body to science, they don't get it till your dead-its not the parts they want to reuse, they just use your cadaver for study.
Yes, I would love to help with important discoveries. And anyway I want to be cremated so they can just burn whatever's left.
Lilil<3's
No because I think I want my body to live in piece in case anything happens to my soul or spirit then.
P.S. no way!!!!!
who cares what happens to your body? ur already dead!!!
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Why should you donate your body to science?would there even be a good reason to except to be cut up and studied? maybe in a million years
For any of you contemplating body donation, I suggest reading the book Stiff by Mary Roach. It was very educational, unbiased, funny, and a very enjoyable read.
I agree with Mary Roach in that “It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control.” I talked it over with my family and we are all comfortable with the idea of donating our bodies to science in the case of death. The most important part of the decision was making sure that it didn't make my family uncomfortable. As it didn't, I'd just as soon be useful.
i wouldnt.
Yes, we would donate our bodies to science so that cures can be found for diseases. Christopher, age 8; Anthony, age 8; Emilie, age 7
A little history about myself. I was bron in 1970. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1975. As most of us can do the math I have had this disease for 33 yrs. I would love to donate my body for research on diabetes. I feel all the people who have done this in the past have helped advancements in this disease (insulin pump therapy, inhalers, so-on....) I believe that if one doctor or student can learn something and use it to benefit others it would be worth it. I understand peoples beliefs and feel that each person is intitled to that. I would like for those that do not feel body donation is worth it, to walk up to my mother back in 1975 and say to her "sorry because people do not donate we have no medicine to help your daughter, she has only a few days to live-make them worth wild while you can!" I have a lot to offer the world and will have more to offer after I am gone!
www.anatomygifts.org is the organization I have decided on. They have thier own cremation facilities. They arrange all the transport, paperwork and details.
Those left behind only have to make a phone call and thats it. The tissue samples are used internationally.
Good Luck
It is meaningful to put the organs and body to the best use after death.all it is used to research that may help to reduce the pain of living.It is really crime to burn or bury when it can be of immense use medically. Really it is a matter of great gratification to know that my mortal remains are of some use even after my full enjoyment of the worldly pleasure. religious rituals need not come in the way of whole body donation.
I want to donate my body if just because I know how difficult it is to study the human body without the real thing. Casts and fake body parts can only get you so far; you need to be able to know what things feel like, and cannot rely on sight alone. I know this from studying bones. Today's bone casts are highly sophisticated, but they aren't perfect. They obscure some features, and obliterate others altogether. If my osteological education had been based on casts alone, it would have been a very poor education indeed. Human remains are very expensive and often very hard to come by. The ones in our lab are unidentified individuals that, once identified, must be returned to the living relatives. After this happens, we obviously can't use them anymore. So trust me, if you donate your body to science, it IS appreciated. Scientific studies on human cadavers ARE important, because in order to save lives, doctors need to be able to have access to a REAL human body. And heck, I'm not using it, so why shouldn't others?
I did mean cremation! it is my heritage that makes me want to do that!
No, i won't because i was born as a single cell made of little cells, so i want to leave that way with out help!
As a christian that doesnt go to church very often but still believes in heaven, hell and the resurrection i feel that its my soul that departs the body after death.I believe that whole body donation is making some good use of the body rather than being cremated or rotting in the ground. Is this an unchristianlike act to donate ?i dont believe so.Your thoughts please.
yes.i want to live after my death
wll u please guide to donate my body?
I am somehow reminded of the salesman that gushes over how comfortable the casket is (You're dead. Like you'll feel it?) and the lifetime guarrantee on the seal. (I guess we wouldn't want to open it up 20 years later and find the clothing has been water damaged.)
I've got the donor designation on my license. I believe you can also make designations in a living will as to what to do with your body.
NO BECAUSE I DONT WANT MORE PEOPLE TO SEE ME DEAD THEN I AM ALIVE
i would not donate my body to science,because want to rest in peace
I would donate my body to science cause i like blood and guts and organs and that would be a cool thing to have them do that stuff for future refrences and that is fun
Jesus is a figment of your imaginations. He does not exist. And if God really cared for us he wouldnt cause so many fights etc in the world, considering he created it. If you were the ruler of a whole world would you sit there shaking your head sadly like he does in all the bible stories? I think if you want to donate your body to science, good on you. People will die without it. And if Jesus does come on the so called Judgement Day, all you christians are screwed anyway coz your bodies will be half decomposed anyway, so quit dreaming. and all the christians I know are complete wastes of space anyway. Maybe you should believe in a good religion like rockism.
Jesus is real enough. Whether He is divine is, of course, a matter of faith beyond the purview of a scientific discussion.
The Christian theologies I am familiar with claim that God gave Man free will. War, sin, etc. is not God's fault, but Man's for choosing to disregard God's way. But, again, that is theology, not science, and ultimately a matter of personal faith.
My mom is about to die from liver probloms, she onl has a few days left. She has told all of us she wants to donate her boy to sience, what should do?
I would because I have greatly benefited from medical research and I would like to return the favor. My soul is gone and its only bone and tissue left, so if that can help find a cure or an answer, I say go for it.
I AM going to donate my body to science after, organ donation. The human body is still a mystery, and no matter how it is used, in the long run I know I will be helping someone in some way.
As for my own religious view, the bible has lots of references about helping others freely without looking for personal gain. Those of you that want to get paid, shame on you!!! Look up the word donate!!
For you greedy people out there, remember one thing; a lot of people, including myself, have lives changed by an illness that has no known cause. I have primary sclerosing cholangitis also known as PSC. (Walter Payton, from the Chicago Bears, died from PSC.)
For others, lives have been changed from accidents, and many other things beyond our control. If my body can help another in ANY way, I'm all for it!
I hope I have a new body when I get to heaven because I stand the pain this one is in any more, and I don't believe God wants me to live in pain 24/7 any longer than I have too...Carol
I don't think that the human body would be any different, but their perseption of the human body mayhave been different. That would've been interesting..
I am 43, diagnosed at age 6 with Spinal Cerebellar Degeneration Ataxia (SCA) and I want to donate my body for medical research after I die.
I hope that this is the right place.
Sherry D.
I would because it would be nice to have other people that are here 200 years from now wut the human body looked like 200 ago it would be interesting
that would be weird to dounate your body parts
i think that it is a really good cause
I think you should donate after death. What do you need them for? They can be used to save a life, that may really need to be saved!
I would like to do this for those people who are just fighting with those type of diseases which needs some new organ to make them feel alive again.It would really makes me feel that my body organs has helped someone .If i would be able to help someone in this way i would think that my life is completed now and i've done something good atlast.
we would like to donate our father's body to medical reasearch as he has no money for his burial and we can't afford and don't want to use our meagre savings on his departure! He isn't much of a dad and didn't do diddly squat for us kids nor anyone else and we feel this is a chance for him to repay the world for his existence. We feel that if there's any chance of him entering heaven where we will be, this is his only hope to reconcile with God and his children! If anyone has a comment as to what we have written, be nice, cause you weren't there and didn't have to live with him! May God bless you all!
you are right = )
No, its not sound good.
At least let me in peace after dead
My family have instructions to donate my organs to anyone who needs them if they are healthy, and to donate my body to a medical school for med students if my body is diseased. I feel that if I can continue to contribute to the community after my death, then I have an obligation to do so.
is it a tax write off?
I have been on several web sites lately and I am feeling a little confused. Some of these sites say if you donate your organs 1st that you then can not donate your body, what's up with that, why does someone who is learning about brains or knee surgery need my kidney or heart? Plus some sites say your bady may not be accepted for one reason or another, dang I suffer enough rejection while I'm alive now I gotta worry about being rejected dead. This is all too confusing, however if I can find a medical school who will take my body after all my organs have been taken out and used to save lives right now, then they can use it train some one to save lives later.Hey I've always wanted to travel, guess if it is only pieces of me here and there going to diffrent states or countries, ok I will, I have no reason to not donate my body. I have mentioned it to my parents and other half and they are all pretty much against it. I plan on getting crememated anyways. So, yes I would and will donate my body, but only if they will take it after my organs have been harvested.
You could try UCSD med school as well as UCLA and john hopkins univ all 3 have great med school programs and they will accept body donations. I am on a organ donor list and I plan to have my body taken to UCLA. After the school uses the body in its med school programs they will cremate the remains so you dont have to worry.
If my body is going to be used for some useful purpose (save lives, research, etc) then yes i would definitely donate, just please don't put my dead corpse on display! And i'm not so sure about giving my body for crash tests or military purposes...I think i'll stick to purely medical uses.
I'm really squeamish and won't even donate blood now, but after i'm dead, who really cares? My soul will be in the afterlife, gone from my body anyways.
The bible says that when you die your body will be whole no matter if you lost :
a leg
an arm
your ability to walk
or whatever
So I don't see why you can't donate. However I'm not a donor ,and I don't think I ever will be. That's just because I'm a wimp and affriad i'll still be aware even though I'm dead. So if you are a donor thanks for being braver than me. :)
i would if someone gave me money
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