how do people thinks of donating bodies for dissection?
2007-01-30 20:11:25 · 5 answers · asked by Arabs 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
This is a matter of personal choice and thank God some do choose to do this. This gives the medical students and researchers something to work with to hopefully prepare them to help those that are ill. It gives them practice in surgical skills before performing them on living people and can be helpful in allowing them, to see what different diseases do to the organs and other parts of the body,so that they have an idea what may be going on in their living patients with similar diseases. Organ donations can also help a living person to have a better life and often helps family members to feel better knowing that their loved ones death was not a total loss..
2007-01-30 20:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Nana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friends father was given a new liver last summer to save his life - he had liver cancer. The person who donated it will never know how much happiness he gave that family. They had extra time together that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. I would like to think that anyone who knows someone who beneffited from an organ or bone marrow donation would consider becoming a donor themselves, even if they don't choose to do so, give it some strong thought. Many conditions and diseases have been studied and either cures or at least better treatment have come about because some people were prepared to let their bodies be cut up and investigated after death. Even if you decide it's not right for you, I would urge you to give blood or plasma to save lives!
2007-01-31 01:17:05 · answer #2 · answered by Behhar B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I plan on donating my entire body. I don't know if they will want my organs for donation as I have had cancer but they can have everything else they can use to learn. I won't care, I'll be dead anyway and we all turn to dust eventually.
2007-01-31 12:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by knittinmama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your dead, your dead. I believe strongly in organ donation upon death. I also believe that if people want to donate their bodies for the greater good of science then so be it.
2007-01-30 20:37:31 · answer #4 · answered by kelstar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not without the person's explicit permission.
2007-02-01 01:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by Deana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋