Would you...?

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Permalink Reply by Dave on July 18, 2008 at 6:57pm

Yes.
A long time ago I worked in a medical school and saw first hand what happens to bodies donated to science. I was a regular 'live' model for anatomy classes and 'starred' alongside other body parts in bottles.
Lets face it most of us won't get a memorial to our life when we are dead. Very few of us get buried and have headstones. This way a bit of you may last a while longer even though there's typically no identification attached.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Carlson on July 18, 2008 at 9:24pm

As others have said, I'm already an organ donor and would gladly donate the unused parts for whatever purpose science can find for them. Perhaps I should donate my body intact to medical science. If they can figure out how I've managed to live this many years after all the abuse I've subjected my body to, perhaps there's something they can learn that will benefit others.

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Permalink Reply by J. Michael Paskaruk on July 19, 2008 at 12:43am

My will says that my best-case-scenario wish is for my body, minus any useful transplantable organs, to be donated entirely to science, and that no carrion-feeding funeral merchant ghouls be allowed to make a single penny off my death.

Whether your worldview is religious or naturalistic, the body is only the wrapper in which we live; once we die, the body no longer has any use, save as a subject of study or as a meal for worms and bacteria.

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Permalink Reply by Niles on July 20, 2008 at 1:18am

I'm probably going to be an organ donor. I like the idea of helping someone even after I'm gone. And it's like the Klingons say in Star Trek, after I'm dead, my body's just an empty shell.

Donating one's body to science sounds nice too.

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Permalink Reply by bamackc on July 20, 2008 at 4:02pm

oh hell no

im just stingy like that

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Permalink Reply by LoLo on July 20, 2008 at 10:55pm

I'm an organ donor, and I'd gladly donate my body to science. My body is just a vessel for my mind, and doesn't define who I am, just what I look like. And it helps me move around, talk, see, eat, drink wine....etc etc ;)

Once I'm dead I really won't have the capability to care anyway, so no big deal to me.

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Permalink Reply by Buffy on July 21, 2008 at 1:54am

I already plan to donate all usable organs/tissues for anybody who needs them, but if they're not usable then science is more than welcome to them. I'm sure not going to need them.

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Permalink Reply by Louis Doench on July 21, 2008 at 8:05am

Sure, its in my instructions to my wife.
I'd really like to donate my body to Mad Science. Then my body could terrorize villagers!

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Permalink Reply by Skylar on July 21, 2008 at 8:25am

Sure, but I will leave that choice up to those I have left behind. It really doesn't matter to me what happens to my body after I die, but my family may feel differently.

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Permalink Reply by Graham on July 21, 2008 at 12:49pm

Organ doner as well. I like to imagine a piece of me living on in someone famous or something like that.

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Permalink Reply by Tedster on July 21, 2008 at 11:42pm

Since I am HIV+ it is automatically cooties in the donor department. I will probably leave my body to science. But it will have to be under the condition that nobody has to pay a dime for this to happen.

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Permalink Reply by Dezzi on July 22, 2008 at 8:04am

Our bodies (my husband and I) will be donated to Science upon our demise, after our usable organs are removed. What’s left will be cremated. The same goes for our children until they can decide for themselves. I found a company called Anatomy Gifts Registry that does this (though I am still in the process of checking them out completely). There will be no burials or funerals. I think we have enough waste (landfills and bone-yards), I try not to contribute to their overpopulation. If some one in our families wants something to fawn upon (i.e. tombstone) when we're gone they have been instructed to plant a tree or donate to one of our favorite charities.

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