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I donated my body to science today

Riverwolf

Riverwolf

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Well I mailed off the application anyway. Sticking to the rules, they don't get me untill I die. The place is called MedCure located in Portland, OR. There is NO COST to myself or family members. They pay for transportation, cremation, death certificates and mail back the ashes in a heart shaped urn (some type of paper, but looks good in photo). The family does not receive ashes/urn for 3-6 weeks, so funeral service, burial, etc will need to be planned as such. They use the bodies mostly for college medical courses. People don't like to talk about it but it costs alot of money to die these days. When my last wife died I made payments to the funeral home for years paying everything off. Anyone else gone this route or thinking about it?
 
Similar thing for me with organ donation etc when I die. As far as I'm concerned, they can take as much as they like. At least it's going to a good cause. As if I'd need it anyway :D
 
I’m a donor too. Not that they can use much, though. I’m donating my skin, eyes and bone marrow. Nobody in their mind would want any of my other organs.
 
l'Chante said:
I’m a donor too. Not that they can use much, though. I’m donating my skin, eyes and bone marrow. Nobody in their mind would want any of my other organs.
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:lol:lol:lol

Forgot to mention that this happens after any donations from your driver license are already done, then they take the body away for whatever.
 
Hey! It’s rude to laugh at old people. :grumpy (Except at Mike)

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It’s a good thing that you can’t donate knees. Mine stopped working so long ago I can’t even remember the last time I could climb a flight of stairs without sounding like a rattle snake. Any everything cracks, so I can’t sneak up on anybody. Well, maybe my dad when he doesn’t have his hearing aids in. <O:p</O:p<O:p</O:p
 
Riverwolf said:
Well I mailed off the application anyway. Sticking to the rules, they don't get me untill I die. The place is called MedCure located in Portland, OR. There is NO COST to myself or family members. They pay for transportation, cremation, death certificates and mail back the ashes in a heart shaped urn (some type of paper, but looks good in photo). The family does not receive ashes/urn for 3-6 weeks, so funeral service, burial, etc will need to be planned as such. They use the bodies mostly for college medical courses. People don't like to talk about it but it costs alot of money to die these days. When my last wife died I made payments to the funeral home for years paying everything off. Anyone else gone this route or thinking about it?
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NO, i am a vet.and i have a boat load of life insurance. i didnt like what the organ harversters did to a friend of mine, the parents wanted to bury asap, and she laid open on the table for days while they did their thing. this girl only wieghed 120 at the most(more like 100lbs) and yet when she was laid to rest she looked like 200 lbs.all she donated was her eyes. they took any organ that they could.so if you say yes to eyes,its yes to them all.
 
Jason, I’m quite sure that organ donation is really traumatic for the ones left behind. <O:p</O:p
If anybody wants to ‘harvest’ my organs once I’m dead – well…, have a corker! I’m not going to do anything with them were I’m going.
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Yet, (and I know I’m incredibly selfish for saying this), nobody will touch my little girl’s body if she should pass away. Yes, I do understand that there are numerous children out there who desperately need organs, but I will not have the ability to sign the document. Crazy, I know, but even if she should die, I will protect her.<O:p</O:p
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Gosh! I sound really sound like a mad person here, don’t I? And you know what the sad thing is? I know a lady who recently (August 2010) had a kidney transplant. Her elderly mother had to donate one to save her life. And then there is one of my mother’s friends whose granddaughter probably won’t live to see her 10<SUP>th</SUP> birthday (November), if she doesn’t get a donor soon.<O:p</O:p
 
l'Chante said:
Jason, I’m quite sure that organ donation is really traumatic for the ones left behind. <O:p</O:p
If anybody wants to ‘harvest’ my organs once I’m dead – well…, have a corker! I’m not going to do anything with them were I’m going.
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Yet, (and I know I’m incredibly selfish for saying this), nobody will touch my little girl’s body if she should pass away. Yes, I do understand that there are numerous children out there who desperately need organs, but I will not have the ability to sign the document. Crazy, I know, but even if she should die, I will protect her.<O:p</O:p
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Gosh! I sound really sound like a mad person here, don’t I? And you know what the sad thing is? I know a lady who recently (August 2010) had a kidney transplant. Her elderly mother had to donate one to save her life. And then there is one of my mother’s friends whose granddaughter probably won’t live to see her 10<SUP>th</SUP> birthday (November), if she doesn’t get a donor soon.<O:p</O:p
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its one thing to take them quickly another to leave the body soo long out in the opent that it swelled up to double its size. trust me i know this girl and saw here physically two days prior to her death.:shame I had a big time crush on her (she didnt know it) then. she was a sight:yes. yet when they got done it was like she was almost unrecongnisable. if you hadnt known her before her death you would assume that she was 100 lbs overwieght.
 
Riverwolf said:
Well I mailed off the application anyway. Sticking to the rules, they don't get me untill I die. The place is called MedCure located in Portland, OR. There is NO COST to myself or family members. They pay for transportation, cremation, death certificates and mail back the ashes in a heart shaped urn (some type of paper, but looks good in photo). The family does not receive ashes/urn for 3-6 weeks, so funeral service, burial, etc will need to be planned as such. They use the bodies mostly for college medical courses. People don't like to talk about it but it costs alot of money to die these days. When my last wife died I made payments to the funeral home for years paying everything off. Anyone else gone this route or thinking about it?
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There is a cheaper way
http://www.christianforums.net/f15/walmart-caskets-26789/
 
Forgot to mention that if you want MedCure will keep your ashes and scatter them at sea and send back a certificate giving the location as in lattitude and longitude.
Again there is no charge. Just a thought.
 
Riverwolf said:
Forgot to mention that if you want MedCure will keep your ashes and scatter them at sea and send back a certificate giving the location as in lattitude and longitude.
Again there is no charge. Just a thought.
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Isn't scattering someone's ashes at sea illegal?
 
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