Trafficking human remains

dorian · Guru

Trafficking human remains

Magnarc · Guru

Crematorium for me Dorian.Not too happy with the thought of the worms going in one ear and out the other. Not that I would know much about it!

Izabarack · Guru

Im confident that when Im dead, I wont know Im dead. Hence, I wont have any awareness of what happens to my mortal remains. I have let those likely to be left behind and expressed my desire to be chemically reduced to liquid fertiliser and applied to a new forestry plantation.

If some scumbag interferes with that process, Ill let Karma deal with them.

dorian · Guru

I wonder why Harvard University would have a morgue? Is that what happens to failed students, or those students who can't pay their tuition fees?

Is that where you end up if you've donated your body to science?

-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 21st of April 2024 10:11:42 AM

Dick0 · Guru

dorian wrote:
I wonder why Harvard University would have a morgue? Is that what happens to failed students, or those students who can't pay their tuition fees?
Is that where you end up if you've donated your body to science?

-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 21st of April 2024 10:11:42 AM

I think you're right about if donating your body to science.

rgren2 · Guru

dorian wrote:
I wonder why Harvard University would have a morgue? Is that what happens to failed students, or those students who can't pay their tuition fees?
Is that where you end up if you've donated your body to science?

-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 21st of April 2024 10:11:42 AM

Harvard has three medical facilities, Medicine, Dental Medicine and Public Health. A least one of them would have use for a cadaver.

DMaxer · Guru

When someone donates their body to science it is usually then transferred to a university. The university may have different programs of research and the body is then allocated to that program. If there is no specific program it may be used in the teaching of anatomy to medical students.

There is also a prolific trade in body parts for transplants and it is right up there in numbers with other hideous criminal acts, especially in third world countries where someone going missing from a village does not overly concern those in authority.

Greg 1 · Guru

I would just like to say if you believe in that stuff, that in the words of the songsters there is a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell which gives an indication of traffic flows.

Izabarack · Guru

In the late 60s, my cousin who was training as a doctor, brought home a human arm. A right hand and forearm but short of the elbow. Only for a weekend and for a disection exercise. I remember the arm on a board, skin pulled back and pinned to the board, and his explanation of the muscles and tendons. His teaching momet to me included a demo or two of moving the fingers by pulling on tendons that emerged from the forarm, just short of where the elbow would have been. Another weekend, a kidney came home with him. All supplied by his University, bits signed out and in so a complete cadaver could be disposed of in accordance with the wishes of the donor.

Cousin has just retired after a career as an Internationally known Kidney specialist. His use of a donated body during his training no dought saved many many lives during his career.

Arguments about the greater good must balance the individual Bad Actor who will take any opportunity to make some money.