Body Donation in Maryland
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kwillia
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Was it OK for her body to be dissected? Was it OK to have the separate parts frozen, packaged and shipped off to universities and hospitals for research? Was it OK to have her remaining remains cremated and sent back to the family?
The answer to all those questions was yes so it makes perfect sense! I'm going to e-mail this link to my mom. I'm thinking she may want to do this.
The answer to all those questions was yes so it makes perfect sense! I'm going to e-mail this link to my mom. I'm thinking she may want to do this.
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
Hospitals do this all the time, I don't see anything wrong with it.MitchellB25J said:
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dems4me
Guest
aps45819 said:no problem as long as Bob doesn't sign up to get parts for the cook out.
I've got the donor "heart" on my license, parts is parts. Once I'm dead why should I care what happens to the decaying meat?
I'm an organ donar too 
aanderson
Member
I've already told the hubby I wanted my body donated...he wasn't too happy with the whole idea but said that since that is what I want than that is what he will do. I figure why waste something in the ground that someone else can use. I hate throwing away furniture or stuff like that when I can donate it...why not donate my body?!?!
While attending classes to become a medic, we have to go to the "cadaver lab" at the U of MD Medical School in Baltimore. Before we even entered the room, we were given an extremly stern lecture by the surgeon and the Dr's that were there to teach us. We were told that these PEOPLE were walking the earth not to long ago, and that they were someones loved one. We were to treat them with respect, no jokes, nothing that would be deemed disrespectfull. We actualy had 1 guy get dismissed from the room an hour or so later, for making comments that were overheard by the Dr's. I learned a lot that day, but it is a very uncomfortable training session, and I remember it vividly.
Lenny
Lovin' being Texican
I had the honor of gross anatomy class the first year of medical school. The majority (29 of 30) were very old people so we didn't dissect anyone with young organs. But it was worthwhile.
In the end you have to ask yourself if you want your surgeon cutting you open when he learned anatomy from a book and not from dissecting a body donor.
In the end you have to ask yourself if you want your surgeon cutting you open when he learned anatomy from a book and not from dissecting a body donor.
The Jackoholic
thinning out the tards
I think also that if you donate your organs after you die your family should be compensated for it since the doctors charge an arm and a leg to save someone with donated organs
MitchellB25J said:
I have no problem with it as long as people who donate their bodies know exactly what will be done with it, the organizations treat the bodies with respect, and disease is tested for before any of the parts are used in other people. The growing field of bioethics is still very new and exploring much uncharted territory, but I think issues that were raised in the article will be coming to the forefront very soon.
My former MIL donated her body to Johns Hopkins. It was heartening to receive letters from them saying that various parts that were harvested were used to help other people and her body was used by anatomy students to help in their becoming doctors one day.
That being said, one book I found very fascinating was "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach. Although written with a great deal of humor, it is a very informative about what happens to a body after death and quite eye-opening.
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julz20684
Guest
So what's the difference between the organ donor symbol on our DL and this? One takes only parts and one takes the whole body?? So you cannot be both then, right?!
julz20684 said:
http://www.marylandmva.com/MVAProg/organ/questions.htm
The program is mainly intended for organ and tissue donation. If you want your body to be donated, you need to make your desire known to your next-of-kin and draw up legal documents stating such.
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julz20684
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jazz lady said:
Thanks
itsbob
I bowl overhand
If you go into the ground, the bugs can no longer get to you.jenbengen said:That kind of stuff used to freak me out. Now I wouldn't mind being "used". Either they use me for a good cause or the bugs eat me up in the ground.I do think that if my kids had a major objection to it as adults, I may reconsider.
You're sealed into a crypt (due to gov't regulation) where your body is no longer allowed to return to the earth, or become dust.
No worms, no bugs.. no returning the favor to nature to provide for her after she provided for you your entire life.