Have you ever thought about your burial
ceremony or what will happen with your body after passing away? I guess you
not; at least, I hadn't until a year ago when my dad decided to sign an online
request for body donors after reading an article about it. When he received the letter confirming his desire
my whole family was in shock. I didn't even know that you could donate your
body! We all were against my dad’s idea but, according to him, his
corpse will be useless after the funeral and he didn’t want to be eaten by worms; for those reasons, he will give his body to the Universidad de Chile's Medical School.
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| These are some of the uses of donated bodies for research. |
The main reasons for
donating your whole body or part of it to Science (tissues are also permitted), and why Universities want
them, are three: 1) for anatomical research, allowing college students from
Medical Schools examine and evaluate the body in detail; 2) to train surgeons and develop
new surgery techniques, and 3) for research, in order to use them for scientific
studies to improve the understanding of the human body. My dad isn’t
that crazy after all!
Universidad de Chile is the only Institution that receives body donations in our country, and they use them for research, pedagogical purposes and to exhibit them in their Museum. If you are interested in give your remains as a present for research, you must consider two important points; sign a legal consent and think about being exposed and manipulated twenty years approximately!
Universidad de Chile is the only Institution that receives body donations in our country, and they use them for research, pedagogical purposes and to exhibit them in their Museum. If you are interested in give your remains as a present for research, you must consider two important points; sign a legal consent and think about being exposed and manipulated twenty years approximately!
Even when I didn't understand my father's ambition since the beggining, I can say that now I gree with him. Perhaps I'm not going to donate my body (it's quite embarrasing!), but I comprehend the relevance of his future contribution to Science.
What about you? Would you donate your body?
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ReplyDeleteDaniela, I think the topic of your entry is really interesting and original; indeed, I had never heard about this before.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand,I agree with you that It could be really embarrassing that in the future my body could be exhibited in a museum or in a classroom, for example. But I understand your father's decision and consider that his arguments to do that are so altruist.
it's sounds quite shocking to hear that your body will be manipulated for twenty years.
ReplyDeletei don't know if i could be able of giving my whole body for that, i mean, i don't care about feeling embarrased because i won't be conscious of what is happening, but if i put in the place of my family, i wouldn't be very pleased of knowing that the body of some person i love is being exposed to that. it's something that has to be analyzed it and discussed, but i agree with your dad when you die your corpse is useless, so why don't make it useful?
I agree with you, is kind of shocking at the very first time, but I compare this situation with the organ donation because a lot of people won't be a donor for lack of information.
DeleteI see body donation as a gift you give to future generations just to help them to improve their life quality. Perhaps we won't see the product of these researches, but our children or grandchildren will. Can you imagine how many disseasses will be cured because a doctor is using someone's brain to conduct a research right now?