anybody ever thought about being a whole body organ donor?

[datasuspect]

or donating your cadaver to a medical school?

[Connonym]

1. yup

[BarenakedLady]

2. My great aunt donated her's

However, when she died at age 106, they were no longer accepting cadavers at Brown University. She would have been disappointed to know that. :(

They can take anything they can use out of me when I die.

[datasuspect]

3. i wonder how a person can set that up

it just seems like such a waste to rot in the earth.

[supernova]

8. Talk to the medical school

nearest you.

They all have body donation programs. The one at Duke works this way: you donate your body. You stay with a med student for an entire year while they learn human anatomy. They learn it from you.

When that year is up, your remains are given back to the family for burial (or ashes if you prefer.)

[wildhorses]

9. what is wrong with contributing to make rich and fertile soil?

pushing up daisies so that others may enjoy the beauty?

:shrug:

[Inchworm]

4. linky

http://www.organdonor.gov/donor/index.htm

:hi:

[applegrove]

5. Yup.

[Deja Q]

6. I'll donate mine to whoever wants it.

Nothing à la carte, however. Gotta be the whole of me. :D

[KitchenWitch]

18. ...

All of me
Why not take all of me
Can't you see
That I'm no good without you
Take my arms
I want to lose them
Take my lips
I'll never use them

Your goodbye
Left me with eyes that cry
And I know that I
Am no good without you
You took the part
That once was my heart
So why not take all of me

(Repeat both verses)

Why not take all of me

[AllegroRondo]

7. I'd love to become an anatomy class skeleton

what a great way to spend your time after you go.

[musette_sf]

10. yes n/t

[YankeyMCC]

11. Yes

I don't know how this will work out exactly but my instructions are -

Donate what's still useful to the living.
Donate the rest to science.
Save some bit to burn and scatter the ashes on Mt Lafayette

[MissMillie]

12. my friend and her family donated her mother's body when she died

a very sick woman.... emphysema, lung disease, ....

[Arugula Latte]

13. Yep.

I think I'll just say: "Take whatever has any use."

I really don't care what happens to my body after I die, as long as I'm not embalmed and buried, which is a stupid waste, IMO.

[Pool Hall Ace]

14. Yep, after I kick off, I'm headed to Duke.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. When the organ donor program began in Kollyforniya

or when I was old enough for it, whichever, one of the questions on the form asked which bit(s) I wanted to donate. I wrote, "Any that are needed, as long as I'm finished with them."

[rubberducky]

16. I have already signed the papers and informed my loved ones that I give my body up for whatever

it may be needed for. Doesn`t make any difference to me. I will no longer need it. The essence of ME will go on in my loved ones memories. If my body can help anyone in any way, that is all I could ever ask for.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Yes I have actually.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. My brother-in-law's aunt did it.

This was years ago, but I believe that she arranged it with the medical school and her doctor.