Cadavers

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place - Mary Roach

Cadavers
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The Secret Lives of Cadavers

The federal government does not monitor whole body donations in the United States, but researchers estimate each year fewer than 20,000 Americans donate their bodies to medical research and training. While organ donation is a point of pride, body donation is often stigmatized.

Most people have only a vague notion of what “body donation” even means. The thought alone frightens, or even disgusts, many people. And scandals involving the illegal sale of body parts, and other snafus, have inspired distrust in body donation programs.

But a closer look reveals the process as both…

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 The Secret Lives of Cadavers

How lifeless bodies become life-saving tools.

9 Ways You May Not Realize Dead Bodies Help Make Our Lives Better

When people die and leave their bodies to science, it can result in much more than a simple organ donation.

MedCure

MEDCURE connects people wanting to donate their bodies to science - WHOLE BODY DONORS - with the physicians and anatomical researchers that are uncovering tomorrow’s medical breakthroughs.

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