Donating Your Body to Science 

My Mother passed in July of this year and donated her body to science back in 1977 after my Dad who passed that same year was asked to donate his body by his Doctor due to his rare heart condition. It's a selfless act of love to want to help others. RIP my angels. I love you so

I have made the decision to have my body donated when I die. I don't have any family or loved ones so to speak and there will be no burial costs

My grandmother was a teacher and donated her body to science. I was mortified by the idea of college students cutting into her or something else, but she wanted to continue to give to education. She was an angel

Only a few days after my husband passed and I was feeling like hell I got a package from the HOPE society (canada) telling me the organs and other things that helped people to live a better life. I can't put into words how much this helped me with the grieving, like a ray of sunshine,, I actually smiled.

My husband and I have willed our bodies to Michigan State university! I think it's a great way to help with science. Takes the burden off our children.

I will never ever forget the gift of the cadaver I worked on. May he rest in peace. I am so grateful that I will be donating my body.

Ive been an organ donor since I've had a drivers license. I decided a long time ago to donate my body to science to benefit medical research.....I'm a cheerful giver and I'm going out still given!

I was raised by my grandparents. My grandma died in 1997 and grandfather in 2010. They both willed their bodies to science for UCSF. We got a really nice letter back from UCSF after my grandma died. ❤

Very great and blessed people are those who donated their body for anatomy studies......no words for them........just what the best human can do for other humans.......

My uncle had Alzheimer’s but he and my aunt had long ago decided to donate their bodies to science. When he passed two years ago, his body was picked up and taken for study. I hope they learn something toward a cure.

In life I did very little to help others , I never gave blood because it grossed me out to much, and I know there are a lot of people that need good organs to survive, if I can save one child that needs something to save their life, then it would all worth

My mother In law did this after she died from cancer. After they were done with her remains they cremated her and sent her ashes back.

I am signed up to help our future physicians. I was saved by them, I'll gladly give back to the future for others

My mother always talked about donating her body to science. On Nov 9, 2018, she passed away in her sleep. I made the decision to donate her body 2 days later.

I plan to donate my body to science. It’s a hell of a legacy to leave behind knowing you will be able to better educate the future generations of medical students.

My mother just passed this Sunday 9/11… only to find out her will stated she wanted to be donated to science. I cannot wait to get her back into my arms. She will be cremated… I just know it will not feel the same to know what her body has been through. I’m just absolutely devastated and not know how to feel about any of this

Right now I'm 54 yrs old. I tell my 3 kids when I die I wanted to donate my body to science. I am Vietnamese mix French German and Irish. I wanted them to study and learn from my body. My oldest son he study to be a bones doctor he love his class about body parts he said mommy if I can bring my pillow to class study until I get tired I go sleep in the class I don't have to go back to my Dom. I feel body donate is a big helps for younger adults students and learn a lots from the donate and help them out with what they're learning and be a good doctor to their patients later on. Sorry I have limited English and I am try to tell the donate body is the best for our younger generation to learn because our oldest generation eating more healthy foods than now everything's fast growing so they can make the money's they don't care what effects humans body health and etc....... thank you for reading my comments God Blessed You all. 🙏🙏🙏💪👍❤️❤️❤️

I will be dead, gone, I do not care what they do with my body after that...if it can help go for it....

Canadian here my family are all organ donors . I think it a wonderful thing they can do and learn from .

If one can save a life and contribute to the advancement of improving many lives with the donation of a entire body or body part can be considered humanitarian. I personally is a body donor D. Pitts

I am having my body sent this forensic body farm. my family knows all about it. just set my body under a Willow tree and watch the decomposition begin. I think it will help when a body is lost and how nature intends our bodies should go.

I learned so much watching videos about death,dying,leaving body to science.but most of all I was moved by man spending hours next to wife's body in funeral home.kissing her. And holding her hand.after 56 years of marriage to your soul mate how do u say goodbye.it moved me to tears thinking of my own wife of 32 years which I'm so grateful that God put her in my life.now I'm a grandfather another gift from God.im so grateful to b blessed..

Being both a medical professional and a patient who’s had 34 surgeries, removing all but 5% of my gastrointestinal tract due to Crohn’s/Colitis and three relapses of colon cancer, I am donating my body and it’s uniquely altered physiology with the hopes that it will help teach the next generation of doctors to be more familiar with my diseases and the extremely rare severity of my diseases (1% of 1% have happened what happened to me). I also pray they could use me to help find if not a cure, at least more effective treatment.

Well our bodies would just decay underground. I'd rather worms not be crawling in my snout . I'd rather donate my corpse.

I'm surprised when I read people comments near about 385 all of all are saying that " I donate my body to science bcz it is humanitarian" but no one want to help in their lives to help others but after death everyone wants to donate their whole body......I don't want criticize but request you all please help people in your life it is more important for all of us. Thanks

I think, we are all beneficiaries of those who donate their bodies to science. Am a Doctor and i would hav no problem Donating my body to science. With that i suppose i would live for ever .

I am donating my body to the university of Minnesota I am so privileged to know my body will be used to help understand my health problems and hopefully find cures for my many health problems I have suffered through my 31 years of life and so privileged to know my body will be used to train the next generation of doctors

My advanced directive clearly indicates my desire for my body to be donated to science. There are several reasons why. One of which is that the cost of a traditional funeral can run well over $10,000. It's a billion-dollar industry. It is predatory on the vulnerable -- Which is objectively immoral. Another reason, is that whatever I have done in life, at least I can be of some value in death.

I wish, with my body donation, I could have a short list of issues so they could be more closely examined. For example, study my brain to see if anxiety or depression affected my lobe development, etc.

Science has been my passion...I am donating my body when I'm gone.

Donating your body to science is a very noble thing! I had a great-uncle that did that, but I had to deal with cadavers in medical school, and I just don't know if I want to have someone dissecting me -- it's a morbid thought. Not that it matters to the deceased, it can't; but it can be a very valuable tool for doctors to learn about the human body so they know how it works and how to best treat it. Without that ability for knowledge, things would be very different in life for everyone!

I am considering doing this myself. One of course for science.. the second reason is because i want to be cremated but my daughter is terrified of ashes so i cant be with her my son lately has been changing and more disrespectful towards me... and i dont want to be a burden to anyone. So i rather do something good for science.. its a win win

I am have willed my body to university of Minnesota I have had quite a few health problems in my young life so far and see it as a huge privilege my body can be used to better train health professionals and help find cures for my health issues

can't wait to see the students faces when they pull back the sheets & start reverse engineering my life 😎

I cant donate my body and i feel better for it after seeing how organs are misused.

I plan on donating my body. :)

My dad passed away in March and Donate his body to science to UCSF

My husband donated his body to science. No funeral his body just in the morgue😪😳😪I hope hope some how it helped some-one.

As long as I’m cremated afterwards (whatever is left)......I’m good with it. I’m obsessed with anatomy...especially the practice of post mortem autopsies. Why should I be the hypocrite who learns from others, but doesn’t want anyone to learn from me??

As one who has already made this choice to donate my body to medical science, I feel it's a gift of medical research and discovery to the benefit of future generations. ... "As life - goes on - without me!"

I have always been a giver in life,my final act in this life is to give my body to medical students!as I have got older and matured I know in my heart it's something I wish to do if it means helping man kind then what have I got to lose!!

Makes perfect sense to me. And I hope God lets me watch. And my wife is looking forward to the report telling her just exactly what the hell was wrong with me!

My uncle donated his body to science after her passed away long time ago. When Inwas in college they had a skeleton in front and I thought about my uncle. One day I called my dad and said I think I found my uncle he was standing up in the front of class..my dad did not find it funny but I thought it was funny. Before anyone gets bent out of shape my uncle and my dad didn't like eachother he died in the early 90's I hardly knew the man.

I want to donate my body to science. Back when I was in high school, I had the opportunity to visit a college of medicine’s anatomy lab and there were so many bodies. That day, I made my decision. I hope my fulfills my wishes, when my time comes

Im donating my body to science...When your dead, your dead...

I been thinking about donating my body to science. Already an organ donor. I think it would be neat. Maybe thy can find something that would be useful for some body.

I just want to donate my brain. Maybe it will help to learn about depression and learning disabilities.

I remember my ex husband asked me if I would ever donate my body I said f*** no that s*** is crazy

Death has become such an expensive thing in this country that it seems not right for me to want to put that financial strain on my family. I think I would rather donate my body to science then see it rot in the ground. I'm going to donate my body to science and I'm hoping I can find a good research center to take care of it.

I always kind of thought of donating myself after I die to some forensic research facility.. I don't know how my family would deal with that decision should I choose to..

I will donate my body to science it will be one hell of a job

I have decided to donate my body to UCLA. I don't care what they do with it. One of the reasons is that it will be easier on my children without the large funeral experiences. God will be with me whatever I choose. A loving mom.

Iv donated my body to science it helps a lot of people to understand the human body good luck to all that have I think it’s a privilege xx

Bit different to leaving your body to science but here in Scotland there's a new law. Everybody that dies is an organ donor if any organs are suitable. Have to fill in a form to opt out ... if you don't want to be a donor.

This is one way too help others in educational needs that will be beneficial for the living.

My older sisters body was donated.

People with chronic disease donating there body to help others who are going through the same situation but yet still no cures.

bless ya so much hard work to become an dr I'm sure in end your get there i hope one day to help teach medical students as one of there body donors as I'm thermally ill young man so decided to give consent to body donation in hope to help teach medical students Anatomy i wish all well in there studies and pray you carry on to become great dr take care

In Texas death row inmates are given a choice to donate their organs as well as their body after being executed. Many of these inmates don't have families or the families have disowned them because they are in prison.

Maggot's also need food too

I am a registered body donor we and organ donars when we die give away what we no longer need to people who r desperate i dont understand why more people don't do it

I dislike donating the body if you died that not mean that your soul died There is another life after death If you died only the connection between you and the people only stops

I contacted IU med school, they won’t take my body because I am too tall (6ft 4in) and 220 lbs. They won’t take anyone over 6 feet or 200 lbs. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good body.

I got a double lung transplant . I will donate my body

I've looked into donating my body to science because I have 4 medical conditions that little is known about but I believe they are connected. Unfortunately I was told they don't accept obese people.

i'm donating my mother in law to ripleys beleive it or not

I was going to donate my body and they told me I was too fat. The lady said if I dropped 15 lbs they would accept me. I told her I'd get right on it- True story

how do you find out how to donate your body to science for a cadaver?

What's the point of my body after I'm gone? In this way, I can contribute to humanity for a least a little after.

I am donating my body.

What I was brought into this world with.....I'm leavin with....!

I wanted cremation but i was wondering about donating my body to science first

Handy man if thats what you want to do then do it your family must accept your decision and b proud of you im a registered body donor

Please advise on how to legally and specifically donate to a scientific source. In my opinion, the options need to be spelled out for one to decide on, so they can plan and paper up accordingly. Thank you.

i like it when i dont die

what do they do when they are done with your body though

My father in law was donated for science after that we got he's ashes

This is the last of human.

My brother donated his body to science.he died march2019 from als.also known as Lou gehrigs disease.mark Daniel jonaitis

My dad was diagnosed with possible Sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease in June of 2002. When my parents were given that possible diagnosis my dad made the decision to donate his brain to further Prion disease research

I'm so interested in this tell me more. When you donate your body to science is the body treated with the up most respect or is just another body to you?

My mom was donated to Science Care and also my brother in law. I thought it was a good thing but there are things they don't tell you, One they use the word "tissue" , like they will say , once we get whatever "tissue " we are using they will be cremated, what they mean by this is a lot of cadavers are sectioned into 6 parts, they sell those parts to Universities and also to Dr seminars, so they might order a torso with a head or no head , it's all so gross to me. Had I known that i would not of donated my mom to them, I thought i was doing something for science. I pictured how we did frogs in high school, like drs studying on them, not dismembering them. Also many of the places, I don't know if science care does this but they don't even use medical saws, they use chain saws which should be against the law. They say there is nothing that breaks the law. I looked this all up here on Google after one of my sisters told me the morbid stuff they do. SO when you get cremated remains, it's the parts they didn't sell or use, it's not the whole person.Also they can lease out the parts for years so your loved ones parts are floating around somewhere, maybe even rotting away somewhere, some it says have been found in medical cinerators. Also these places are for profit, Science care original owner made billions then sold it , now another guy owns it and runs it like a Mcdonald's he says. I think there should be a class action suit against them and everyone else that does this because if donors families knew their loved ones were going to be dismembered I am pretty sure they wouldn't sign up, at least 90% of them. I wouldn't of donated had i known that was what they meant by taking tissue. It should be against the law unless they come right out and tell the truth to the doner.

I donated my body twice already and here I am to write about it.....go figure

depends on the donator. if the family don't specify they will *cremate the body.

I'm donating my body to science...

Don't do it. I have seen them throw parts around- laugh and make jokes- etc. The only good thing is that it is FREE. My dad donated his body to University of Louisville. That was 10 yrs ago, and we never have received his ashes.

I was inspecting a shutdown Hospital one day and they left some man's head that was fun to find LOL. He smelled worse than anything so if you donate your body they may forget parts and leave you behind. Like you'd care lol

Iv donated mine when I’m gone hope it helps someone

My 38 year old son is a homeless man by his own choice. He is not (life) insurable. Should he pass before me, I will most likely donate his body first, because at least in his death he will have contributed to Humanity and also, a funeral would take most of my savings. Unless he marries, I am his legal next of kin. This idea was presented to me by a caring friend who understood my dilemma should he pass.

Yes I can donate my body. I'm Indian.

This final contribution may help others and the advancement of science, but I have personally witnessed medical professionals weighing the value of one life (dying- possibly-- but still with the possibility of survival) and euthanasia for the sake of harvesting organs and/ or corpses.

i'm donating my body to sicencefiction

They are "DERILECTS" not in a bad way but that's the name for a donated body for the purpose of science DERILECT

When one die and they want their body to go to science does it matter where the person die for the donation to take place. Say my body is signed to be donated to Mayo Clinic in Rochester Mn but I live someplace else in another state how does the donation of the body take place and my request is honored. DPitts

Thank you. I called the University of Iowa and was told if I am obese they do not want my body because difficult to move it. I need to find another place. My body has had many procedures, 2 strokes, surgeries and I feel would be a learning experience. Any suggestions?

If you say you don't need to show students the whole body and just give them good textbooks and donated organs think about this for a second: Do you want your car to get fixed by someone who just read the manual and was shown how the breaks work?

I just recently put my body on file for donation. I'm not religious in any way. attest I can say I'm useful when I'm dead and teach people and help save life's

He's name was Maynard Lewis.☺️☺️☺️

I would like donate my body I have an illness chronic.... neuralgia trigeminal

I want to donate my body to Cadaver Science.