If You Donate Your Body to Science, Does That Mean You Don't Have To Have A Funeral?

Question

Since there are people who've donated their body to science, does the families of the cadavers need to have a funeral for them prior to giving their bodies away?
How does that work?
Also, what happens to the cadavers after it's been dissected? Do they dispose them or bury them?

Anybody can answer these questions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Different states have different laws on this issue. Your remains will be cremated after they are used as teaching tools for up and coming doctors. It's fascinating! The people I have known who did donate themselves were very sick; many surgeries and disease processes that will educate others. It doesn't cost anything where we live and they come to get the body once that person has passed on. They are very respectful. Most folks have a memorial ceremony because they really don't have a time schedule on the use of the cadavar. You can call the state you're in to find out more; or even call a hospice facility about body donation and they give you more detailed information. Godloveya.

Answer 2

Ok, number 1 you never Have to have a funeral, you can be cremated or buried without a service at all. Not all cadavers are dissected, but after they are done, they dispose of them, usually by means of cremation. and there is usually not much left. Skeletons are kept for ever (for use in classrooms and whatnot.) Major organs are usually kept in formaldehyde for a LONG time.

Answer 3

It wouldn't be a funeral, which involves a burial. They could have a memorial service.

Cadavers are incinerated.

Answer 4

when you give your body to science they come get you and that's the last the family See's of it so, no funeral in the traditional sense ...

Answer 5

I think that you have a funeral service and then are taken to a lab , preserved and used for studies.