Whole Body Donation
• Most body donation programs are only set up to facilitate medical education. This is the surgical removal of limbs to be sent to surgical education events to train doctors or a new device or improve a doctor’s existing surgical skills. • Currently, 95% of all donors are only used for medical education. Ask your provider how much they recover for disease research if it is important to you.
• If disease research is important to you then focus on those programs that offer it as a primary service to donors.
• Programs that are heavily involved in disease research require a more lengthy registration process in advance of death (with the donor) instead of after death (with the donor’s next of kin).
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