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    The Gunther Von Hagens Body Appeal

    I watched the show - The Gunther Von Hagens Body Appeal - recently on TV yesterday. I thought it quite a fascinating subject. I didn't realise there was a shortage!



    Are you prepared to donate your body to medical science? Or are you just donating your organs? Do you know how to do so in your own country? Would you be interested - why/why not? Do you think your family would honour your decision if you did decide to donate your body to medical science? Do you think that it needs to be more widely publicised that one can donate their body for medical science along the same lines (in being in the consciousness of the broader public as such) as organ donation?



    For us aussies -- thanks to the ABC:

    Have you ever contemplated donating your entire body to science? How do you do it? What parts can be used? And what happens to it afterwards? Danny Kingsley decided to investigate the world of body donation - and discovered that after death your body can have a whole life of its own.

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/featur...dy/default.htm

    has all the information you seek!


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    aussiepunkshocker
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    I watched this too, I love him!
    Im prepared to donate my body for disection and learning purposes. Im a bit torn between organs for transplant and disection but either or. I know my family are cool with that sort of thing. Mum said before she went to bed, "Bte you or whoever can donate my body - remind me to fllow that up sometime with the legal stuff" lol.

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    My grandfather was donated... he helped find a new diabetes medication. They tell you what they use the bodies for.

    I'm a donater.


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    I'm going to donate my body as well. So much for my dreams of an Irish wake/Viking funeral hybrid, hehe.

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    I totally want to donate my body, always have. I think I chose donor when I got my driver's license. Perhaps they can use my breasts to create a prototype for the perfect breast implant!

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    You aren't augmented [email protected]?!

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    i dont want to donate for science, isnt that what prision deaths become?

    i am a donor tho for other peoples benifate, im pretty sure my family will honor that decision when the time comes

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    ^^^You didnt see the show?
    My choice wouldnt be to donate for research but for practice which I think helps people and animals.
    Medical students in Britain dont have enough human bodies to practice on and many of their classes and courses have had to be cut.
    As Gunther stated - you wouldnt choose a mechanic to fix your car who'd never touched a car engine before, and ye most people are expected to use surgeons whove never trained on a human body.
    They also didnt cover the animal rights angle in this programme. As far as Im aware although things may have changed in the last 20 years although I doubt it. Animal substitutes are used. When they use animals theyre not nessesarilly dead and it used to be the case that no anesthetic or pain killers were used either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker View Post
    When they use animals theyre not nessesarilly dead and it used to be the case that no anesthetic or pain killers were used either.
    poor animals!! thats inhumane oops, and nope, i didnt see the show.

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