I have decided to give my full body to science.To a local university hospital.
Cadavers have always been in short supply and provide a great resource for students.
I will have no service and my cremated remains will go to my family after they have used my body for whatever reason they see fit.Any bone I have that is healthy can be used for implantation into people who need it.
My 22 yr.old son has a problem with that.I have the paperwork but I have refrained from signing until I can get him on board.My 29 yr.old son is fine with it.
He saw a movie called *pathology* where the medical students were playing around with body parts and being generally horrible as it was a horror movie. He seems to think this is a true possibility and his thought is that it would *totally freak him out* to think someone was messing with me like that after my death.
I have told him ,my body is only a shell and even if that were to happen,I am not there and my soul has left my body, it is not ME.
He said he just can't handle the idea and while I want to leave this earth doing a final good deed,I do not want to do so at the expense of my sons comfort.
I should also mention,the cremation is free and this would be a wise choice for financial reasons as well.
It is a wonderful idea and it would be an amazing gesture to give your body to help others in such a way.
The medical students don't go playing around with bodies at all. My friend was a med student and she cried and left to room the firs time she saw a cadaver.
The reasons I don't like it are purely personal. I guess it just wouldn't feel right. I'm not a big believer of life after death but I want my body to remain intact. Organ donation is a strong possibility for me but my whole body would just be too much.
If you do decide to do it just remember you are doing a wonderful thing.
I think it is a good idea. I appreciate people who do, because i want to go to med school.
My mom wants to do the same thing. And i am slightly uncomfortable with it, but that is purely bc i have this crazy idea that she will die before i do dissections, and i will somehow end up with her. But i know thats unlikely and i support her decision.
Explain to your son that you are doing it to help people. You could save many lives just by donating yourself. He is an adult and he should be able to maturely understand that.
I like the idea, as my MIL wants to do this. However, it prolongs the grieving process for the family. The cadaver can be at the university for a year or longer before given back to the family. The family then has to grieve all over again.
this is something i considered for myself also.
i was able to donate some of my daughters organs,and knowing that i was helping other families really helped the grieving process.No one else in my family would agree,but it was not up to them.
i agree with your thinking that my body is only a shell,the essence of me is not flesh and bones.
donating your body,can only further science and make better doctors,who one day may save countless lifes because of it.
I agree completely, I have donated my body to the Baylor College of Medicine in 1999 and I carry my donor card with me at all times, you are absolutely correct we only live in the body, the soul never dies. I do belive in reincarnation and yes we always will be here as a spirit, with a body or without.
To me it is important that people who study medicine learn on a human body, animals are not build the same way and respond completely different to medication, therefore I don't understand why they are used in anyway.
I like the idea, as my MIL wants to do this. However, it prolongs the grieving process for the family. The cadaver can be at the university for a year or longer before given back to the family. The family then has to grieve all over again.
As a nurse you should understand a full body donation, why would the family have to grief again, it is done when the person dies, you don't understand that, it sounds like you want to dwell in grief. Get a grip.
As a nurse you should understand a full body donation, why would the family have to grief again, it is done when the person dies, you don't understand that, it sounds like you want to dwell in grief. Get a grip.
I can understand you way of thinking, yes of coarse you can grieve after the person dies and then merely recieve their ashes later as a memory, but I understand J_9's too,
a lot of people feel closure when they have a funeral and physically bury their loved one or recieve their ashes. and I don't think she needs to "get a grip"
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