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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1139670" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>From personal experience, some tips and other things about the "donating my body to science" thing...</p><p>1. Do it well in advance, by contatcting at least 3 teaching universities that utilize cadavers. They need to be close by. Transport of dead bodies is not cheap.</p><p>2. The fact that the medical facility/university agrees and contracts to accept you upon death is not binding. Why?</p><p>a. No one knows the day or the hour they will leave this earth.</p><p>b. There is never any shortage of dead folks on any given day--small town or large city. There certainly isn't a shortage of old, diseased, cancer ridden, liver gone, lungs gone, heart diseased dead folks--nor is there a shortage of those who have made no final pre-arrangements and the family is looking for a cheap way out of dealing with the dead body. Dead people who died young, in relatively good health are in far more demand than people who are over age 50-80. </p><p>c. There is not an infinite amount or storage room in any of the teaching hospitals or universities. If the facilities are already full of cadavers, they will simply decline to accept the body. </p><p>3. Have a back up plan if the body is refused. </p><p>4. Make sure your wishes are spelled out officially in documents--usually a living will, as well as in last will and testament's first paragraph. </p><p></p><p>Cremation: Shop it like you would a new car or tractor. Prices can run from $500 to several thousand $. Last one I had anything to do with cost $1200, and included pickup and transport from place of death to crematorium. It was the least expensive within a 500 mile radius. Ask what is included in that cost---like a new car, there can be and usually are other costs not advertised in the base price. transport, disposal of ashes, urn, transport of ashes back to family, even death certificate. (in Texas, county coroner, funeral director/crematorium now all sign off on death certificate)</p><p>Finding a good one:</p><p>If the deceased is a military veteran, the closest VA facility keeps a list of approved crematoriums they can vouch for, and even if the deceased is not a vet, the list is useful and the VA will give it to you to use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1139670, member: 18945"] From personal experience, some tips and other things about the "donating my body to science" thing... 1. Do it well in advance, by contatcting at least 3 teaching universities that utilize cadavers. They need to be close by. Transport of dead bodies is not cheap. 2. The fact that the medical facility/university agrees and contracts to accept you upon death is not binding. Why? a. No one knows the day or the hour they will leave this earth. b. There is never any shortage of dead folks on any given day--small town or large city. There certainly isn't a shortage of old, diseased, cancer ridden, liver gone, lungs gone, heart diseased dead folks--nor is there a shortage of those who have made no final pre-arrangements and the family is looking for a cheap way out of dealing with the dead body. Dead people who died young, in relatively good health are in far more demand than people who are over age 50-80. c. There is not an infinite amount or storage room in any of the teaching hospitals or universities. If the facilities are already full of cadavers, they will simply decline to accept the body. 3. Have a back up plan if the body is refused. 4. Make sure your wishes are spelled out officially in documents--usually a living will, as well as in last will and testament's first paragraph. Cremation: Shop it like you would a new car or tractor. Prices can run from $500 to several thousand $. Last one I had anything to do with cost $1200, and included pickup and transport from place of death to crematorium. It was the least expensive within a 500 mile radius. Ask what is included in that cost---like a new car, there can be and usually are other costs not advertised in the base price. transport, disposal of ashes, urn, transport of ashes back to family, even death certificate. (in Texas, county coroner, funeral director/crematorium now all sign off on death certificate) Finding a good one: If the deceased is a military veteran, the closest VA facility keeps a list of approved crematoriums they can vouch for, and even if the deceased is not a vet, the list is useful and the VA will give it to you to use. [/QUOTE]
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