Donating your body to science?

Question

I have developed a phobia about donating my body to science. I have read that they badly want to know how the mind works. If I donate my body and they choose to experiment on my brain, and somehow reactivate it. And I come back to life or wake up with my brain in a jar hooked up to wires like some hollywood horror movie. Do think that is possible?

Does anyone else have such a phobia about donating your body to science?

Answer 1

I have a phobia about organ donating...I think that if god forbid I am ever in a bad accident they may just let me go because some alcoholic needs a new liver down the hospital hallway! I know it is crazy but I guess we all have our own fears!!!

Answer 2

Nobody can say for certain what it is like to be dead. But the general consensus is that once the brain is deprived of oxygen for a period of time, it dies. And that actually happens pretty quickly, given how metabolically active the brain is. But where the soul goes after that, well, that is a matter of controversy.

There are certain faiths that prohibit the donation of certain tissues and products of the body. Jehovah's witnesses will not accept the transfusion of blood products (though this does not apply to cadaveric donation, per se). Jewish law (Halachah) prohibits the harvesting of organs from a deceased person's body except in the cases of life saving measures (For a discussion on this, you might wish to refer to Maurice Lamm's authoritative work entitled The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning). Other cultures and belief systems have their own ideas and thoughts about what might happen to the soul when a person dies, and how one must treat the body once the person has passed on. I think that these ideas and notions are going to be challenged and put to the test, if you will, as we continue to make advances in medical science and as we face ethical dilemmas along the way.

Having said that, your fears about organ donation might be related to your fears about death in general, This is something that everybody has and must face at some point. But we do not have to do this alone. Your questions will guide you and lead you along the path, and the answers will come in time, if you continue to search for them.

Answer 3

donating your body to science help them find new ways to look at the brain and other parts of the body helping find cures and new treatment 4 others

they do store brain in to a jar but most likely sent to a schools 4 doctors and nurse to give them some knowledge of brain surgery

they can not use your brain and reactivate it OK

Answer 4

I don't think that would happen. They might use the brain in another living thing if such things became possible but I believe that people have a soul, and that the soul is separate from the brain. When you die your so dies too so it's just a brain. You would be dead. You wouldn't need it.

Answer 5

With the rate of progress in science progressing the way it is, don't dismiss it. Besides, they have have multiple subjects to test on that won't be missed, prisoners in death row and such. Personally, I'd rather just be buried intact, brain and all.

Answer 6

I've never really thought about it.
You are imagining waking up in a jar? Why not in a new body? I think that the jar thing was in a movie, with Steve Martin.

Answer 7

No, that won't happen. To make make your phobia worse, medical students play with the cadavors in class. They toss organs at each other and use the bodies like puppets. I wouldn't do it. I don't want to be the butt of jokes after my death

Answer 8

If you have such a phobia, why would you even consider donating it?

Answer 9

I'm thinking that maybe they'll attach my brain to a dog's body, and then reactivate it.

Answer 10

I don't think they can do that here in the US. The family has to give permission, and You have to "will" it, at least that's what I know of. And MOST importantly Your DEAD!
Don't think about it! You're donating for avery good cause.