Really strange question/favor...

[TeTe]

I'm taking a non-fiction writing class and we have to write a paper that includes interviews. I've chosen the topic of whole body donation (leaving your body to science when you die.)

Are there any of you out there who have family members who have done this or have made plans to do it yourself? Are there any doctors/surgeons who had to use these bodies while in med school? Anyone work for an anatomical donation program? If so, would you like to be interviewed? I doubt that this ever gets published, so it won't be appearing in the New Yorker or anything.

Thanks for your help!

 

[beckymd]

I am a medical student. In my first year I dissected a cadaver and the summer after my first year I was a teaching assistant for the next year's class and did it all over again (this time a "professional" dissection) as well as assisting other students with finding structures.

I also plan to donate organs if I become brain dead and donate my whole body if the organs aren't usable (I am not brain dead nor a non-beating heart eligible donor).

-Becky

 

[TeTe]

Becky,

I'm going to send you a PM.

Thanks for getting with me on this.