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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 01:32 PM Original message |
Donating your body to science trains the doctors who will treat your grandchildren |
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SavWriter (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. You have to be careful |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. LOL! That was a chuckler! nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Another option is forensic science |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. I may do that if they agree to prop me under a tree with a beer in my hand. |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. LOL! |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Have you read the book "Stiff" by Mary Roach? |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Yesh - don't know if I have the stomach |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. It's not really a gore filled book. |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Okay then - added it to my reading list |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. I have a family member |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. That's what hubby thinks I should leave my body for |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Can you arrange to have your body appropriately buried after they are done using it? |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. what difference does it make? you're dead. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. That is not point |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. i'm not disrespecting anyone's faith. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. My father died last month and he donated his body. |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 11:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. I believe with the body farm in Tennessee |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Donate? They can pay me for it! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. I already authorized my body to science & I don't care if any |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. What if a body can still feel something after death? |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yes, we do know! No brain activity...no feeling. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. But we don't really KNOW that for sure. It's a theory. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 12:01 AM Response to Reply #12 |
33. And what body DOESN'T have some pretty horrible shit happen to it after it dies? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. No freebies for them until I get free health care. |
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EdMaven (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. I should donate my body so the medical-industrial complex can profit from it? |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 11:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Then donate it to a forensic science program. |
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EdMaven (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. You don't understand. Those programs are part of the medical industrial complex. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. My organs are donated on my driver's license, fine, but I don't like being the live Guinea pig for |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. Needle day is a hoot for military types... |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm donating my body to scientology |
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licanes (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. Go for it! |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 11:08 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Med school is a great option |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 03:05 AM Response to Original message |
35. Then they'll be, like, "hey, you look familiar" -nt- |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 03:09 AM Response to Original message |
36. They'll get my body when they pry it out of my cold, dead, cryonics chamber. |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
37. In Thailand I attended a thank you creremony by a medical school |
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