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[Coops]

Sadly this does happen sometimes. You can choose to donate it to a medical school instead. Med students aren't perfect either, but probably more respectful than undergraduates. I do appreciate people who donate their bodies to science. Since the average med school requires 1 body for every 4 students for dissection lab, and with our school it is only those 4 students working on the body the entire year. I am definitely an organ donor but haven't given much other thought to what happens to my body after I day

This is pretty useful info to have. For me personally, I don't think I'd care how my body was handled as long as someone was genuinely learning from it. But I know others feel differently. It's good to know that some folks appreciate the people who donated their bodies.

Are there any other options aside from medical school for donations to medical science?

[Sweeney]

Are there any other options aside from medical school for donations to medical science?

 

You could donate your body to the Body Farm

[Coops]

You could donate your body to the Body Farm

Yeah I had mentioned this as something I always wanted to do in a previous reply. It seems like such a cool way to contribute to science. Bonus points cuz taphonomy is really interesting to me. What would you want done with your corpse? You and Nymh seem like body farm type of people lol.

[Sweeney]

Yeah I had mentioned this as something I always wanted to do in a previous reply. It seems like such a cool way to contribute to science. Bonus points cuz taphonomy is really interesting to me. What would you want done with your corpse? You and Nymh seem like body farm type of people lol.

 

Oops, I missed that. Sorry!

I don't much care what happens to my body - I'll be dead Some sort of scientific application would be ideal from an "everyone-else" kind of perspective, though. I haven't made any specific plans.

[NapisaurusRex]

Okay writing in the books is seriously such an incredible idea. I am gonna do that if I ever have a kid. What kinds of messages do you leave in books?

I haven't read that book, no, but I'll check it out.

The tree planting idea is pretty awesome. I had considered doing that as well but I will probably donate my body to science.

Just whatever. Sometimes it's like 'I love you' with the date. Sometimes it's more like 'remember when we spent a month reading this book then we went and saw the movie?' This paragraph reminds me of you. Tbh they'll probably never get around to all my marginalia, but it makes me happy. I've noticed with the oldest especially, she remembers every terrible thing ever and doesn't remember things that she enjoyed at the time.

This is pretty useful info to have. For me personally, I don't think I'd care how my body was handled as long as someone was genuinely learning from it. But I know others feel differently. It's good to know that some folks appreciate the people who donated their bodies.

Are there any other options aside from medical school for donations to medical science?

You can be a crash test cavedar. I'm sure there's a lot of non-medical school options, research facilities need bodies too.

[Sweeney]

cavedar

 

Sounds like some off-brand fish egg bullshit.

[NapisaurusRex]

Sounds like some off-brand fish egg bullshit.

My phone redlined every other way I tried to spell it.

[Sweeney]

My phone redlined every other way I tried to spell it.

 

Cadaver, for next time

[Kaddict]

This is pretty useful info to have. For me personally, I don't think I'd care how my body was handled as long as someone was genuinely learning from it. But I know others feel differently. It's good to know that some folks appreciate the people who donated their bodies.
Are there any other options aside from medical school for donations to medical science?

I'm sure there are. I don't know much of them, bc I guess I haven't knowingly benefited from them. But I will tell you what, I think medical students doing their own dissections on cadavers is probably the most important thing we do our first year for our training. No better way to learn the human body than to open it up and find how everything isn't connected with your own hands. Some schools are moving away from it, doing virtual dissections, and I think that those Med students are having a huge disservice done to them. I know things like the body exhibit do professional dissections for teaching of the general public and the medical professional world. Idk about others off the top of my head though. I think rather than just Med student dissection, sometimes things are done where the body is cut with an ultra sharp blade into layers so you can pull drawer type things out and see that section of a body. Pretty cool

I am always grateful for people who decide to use their last act to give to the next generation, as you would with any form of body donation. So good for you!

[Salade]

Apart from browsing watchpeopledie and lastimages on reddit, not much. Love reading about unsolved murders/disappearances.

 

I used to look at gore when I was 15ish, because a "friend" would randomly send me gore pictures and gifs. Tried desentisizing myself by going through every gore thread on /b/. Didn't exactly work, I can only look at thumbnails or veeeery pixelated images. Gifs and videos, no thanks. 

 

Oh, and I think about the death of my loved ones when I'm PMSing and on the shitter. You know that meditative trance that comes when you've been sitting in one space for too long and have read all the shampoo bottles? My mind goes straight to "What would you do if your boyfriend/sister/mum/dad died?" I give a eulology in my head and start crying. Not very morbid, but eh

[Cannabis]

I talk about gruesome murders, serial killers, rapists and other true crimes with my step sister on my podcast The Podiac Killer, on iTunes, Podbean, Spotify and Audioboom. This was not an #ad

[NapisaurusRex]

This is pretty useful info to have. For me personally, I don't think I'd care how my body was handled as long as someone was genuinely learning from it. But I know others feel differently. It's good to know that some folks appreciate the people who donated their bodies.

Are there any other options aside from medical school for donations to medical science?

I don't know if this counts as medical science or not, but I took Jill to an exhibit when she was little and it had people cut up in different ways to show how they worked. Like one body had everything but the veins, arteries and bones cut away. One of them had just a digestive system. Stuff like that. There was assorted organs at the end. I'll see if I can find the name of the exhibit. It was pretty cool, but it smelled funny.
Bodies: the exhibition

[cara]

Apart from browsing watchpeopledie and lastimages on reddit, not much. Love reading about unsolved murders/disappearances.

I used to look at gore when I was 15ish, because a "friend" would randomly send me gore pictures and gifs. Tried desentisizing myself by going through every gore thread on /b/. Didn't exactly work, I can only look at thumbnails or veeeery pixelated images. Gifs and videos, no thanks.

Oh, and I think about the death of my loved ones when I'm PMSing and on the shitter. You know that meditative trance that comes when you've been sitting in one space for too long and have read all the shampoo bottles? My mind goes straight to "What would you do if your boyfriend/sister/mum/dad died?" I give a eulology in my head and start crying. Not very morbid, but eh

Omfg I spent an entire work day last week watching videos on that fucking watchpeopledie sub. That is truly a morbid sub.

[Salade]

Omfg I spent an entire work day last week watching videos on that fucking watchpeopledie sub. That is truly a morbid sub.

Ikr? It's oddly binge-y. In conclusion, I'm never going to Brazil or China.

[Drakonid]

https://www.reddit.c...leFuckingDying/

NSFW

[Kakashi]

Hmm compared to everyone else here I am not really that morbid lol. But I often think about things like zombie apocalypse scenarios, what would happen if I was somewhere and a gunman came in, etc. Worst case stuff where me or people around me could die and what I would do. Or how I would try to kill/disable someone in self defense. 

 

oh, and anytime a mass shooting occurs, i usually try to find live footage people took at the time to see what its like to be in that situation. 

Edited by Kakashi, 15 July 2018 - 11:59 AM.

[Shannon]

I'm only 23, but my family and quite a few friends already know my final wishes. I want a paddle-out in my honor and my ashes scattered across the oceans.

There’s more, but it’s things I keep to myself mostly. I’m relieved to see I’m not the only morbid soul here, though.

Edited by Shannon, 15 July 2018 - 09:30 PM.

[Trinket]

Tell me about the morbid shit you do. 

I have a folder of death letters. Basically, they are letters to people I love for after I die. And I have a journal I've been keeping for my husband after I die.

 

In a way that's kind of beautiful, reminds me of something I read before with an old man that paid in advance to have flowers delivered to his wife every anniversary after he died.  The memories stay regardless, but it's a very lovely way to strengthen the reminder of how much you love and cherish the people in your life <3

 

My morbid thing I guess is that I'm changing my field and going into forensic psychology.  I want to understand why people do the things they do, specifically motives that serial killers have.  It feels so alien to me to hurt someone, let alone kill them, and I'm genuinely curious about what, in their mind, sets us apart.  I've read some fucked up things researching.