Interested in how cadavers are used today and who are the
people who donate their bodies to institutions/ programs for study I read an
article on msnbc and did some other research to delve into it. While it’s
obviously nothing like what we read in the articles about what happened over a
century ago with body snatching being almost a regular thing. The article
explains how do to a shortage of bodies some universities don’t require the
donor to be the person themselves but it can be the family who donates it. In
the current economy this has sparked an upswing in donations because families
have found donating is much more cost efficient than a funeral. This turns
something many view as pure and even heroic into something almost criminal if
done for the wrong reasons.
In
the end the use of cadavers is necessary but should only be done to the bodies
of people who truly know what is going to happen to them. It shouldn’t be
something that you just check a box off on an application.
John Plevel
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