Donating your body to medical education lets your body live on by allowing doctors and medical students to create new life-saving surgical procedures. Whole body donations enable advancements in spine/hip replacement and neurology that often leads to new surgical techniques.
Whole body donations are not the same as organ donations. Organ donation is an urgent transplanting of a specific organ from one person to another, if possible, at the time of death. Whole body donation is almost always an option, even when transplantation is not. Whole body donation is an exceptional gift to the future of humankind as it can help facilitate the progress of medical science for future generations. There is no greater gift than the gift of whole body donation.
Cremation is becoming a common alternative to a traditional funeral. We provide a NO COST cremation to those who make a whole body donation to science. If cremation is a good choice for you, please consider donating your body to science.