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    Donating your body to medical science?

    It's on the one show just now.

    Would you?

    From what I am told you really get sliced and diced. 1st year students get the body, second year students get your brain or as I was told you get the 'brain in a bucket'.

    #2
    Yes I will. I've talked to the family and made my wishes clear, and I think I've talked my mother in to donation.
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      #3
      Originally posted by Zippy View Post
      Yes I will. I've talked to the family and made my wishes clear, and I think I've talked my mother in to donation.
      Well played.

      I'm going to go the David Bellamy route with a tree stuck on me and something made of me in 100 years.

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        #4
        Originally posted by minestrone View Post
        Well played.

        I'm going to go the David Bellamy route with a tree stuck on me and something made of me in 100 years.
        No skin off our nose is it? (IGMC)
        The David Bellamy route is good as you'll be helping to provide fuel for future generations.
        I watched the One Show (for a change) and I thought they had rather missed the point in a way. You can learn about anatomy from models and text books but it doesn't give the sense of awe (and respect) that chopping up a real animal does.
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          #5
          "...medical science decided they didn't like the look of it and bequeathed it right back..."

          Anyone?
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            #6
            Originally posted by Zippy View Post
            No skin off our nose is it? (IGMC)
            The David Bellamy route is good as you'll be helping to provide fuel for future generations.
            I watched the One Show (for a change) and I thought they had rather missed the point in a way. You can learn about anatomy from models and text books but it doesn't give the sense of awe (and respect) that chopping up a real animal does.
            The gf met her best friend from uni when they were assigned the same body in first year. Freaks. I payed my way through uni working in a butcher shop for 5 years and still I'm not sure I could disect a human body.

            I think they just throw you into the situation as a medical student, first day you are given a body and have to deal with it.

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              #7
              Originally posted by minestrone View Post
              From what I am told you really get sliced and diced. 1st year students get the body, second year students get your brain or as I was told you get the 'brain in a bucket'.
              Or in sasguru's case, you get the "brain in a matchbox".

              “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                #8
                Originally posted by Zippy View Post
                No skin off our nose is it? (IGMC)
                The David Bellamy route is good as you'll be helping to provide fuel for future generations.
                I watched the One Show (for a change) and I thought they had rather missed the point in a way. You can learn about anatomy from models and text books but it doesn't give the sense of awe (and respect) that chopping up a real animal does.
                My mother-in-law plans to donate her body to be used as a sort of defence against coastal erosion. It has pissed the kids off as they wanted her as a bouncy castle.
                “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                  #9
                  Seems you can't donate your body if you are already donating your organs - seems a bit daft that. There must still be bits that they could practice on.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
                    Seems you can't donate your body if you are already donating your organs - seems a bit daft that. There must still be bits that they could practice on.
                    That's what I discovered - always been really interested in donating to medical science, but am now an organ donor, don't know how that works.
                    Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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