After watching an excellent documentary about a place in the usa that uses real bodies to learn the way bodies decay, for forensic science in order to help police catch criminals. they leave bodies to decay recording tempertures, rate of decay, weather and if a bodies clothed or not. this tells them when a person might have been killed. Many people donate their bodies to science and this program focused on a man who had done just that and what they learnt from studying his body. his relatives said how much he wanted to help people and for others to learn more about their bodies. In death he did as much as he could as in life, and that made me smile, even tho i was a little saddened at his death.
then of course theres Body worlds where people have donated their bodies for examination by medical and public alike.
evidence has shown that over 15% of people who've been have stopped smoking after witnessing what it does to the body.

i think i might donate myself, i believe the spirit and soul go on to pastures new and the body is empty of what was a person so if i can help science discover something new then in a way its a form of immortality.

would you consider body donation?

(Edited by nemesis 14/11/2002 17:23)