Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a body on a morgue table with only the feet showing and a toe tag on the big toe Death is inevitable and often unpredictable. But ...

If you’re feeling altruistic and want to give back to society even after you die, body donation is an excellent option. Giving yourself—literally all of yourself—is arguably the most generous gift you ...

Working with cadavers in an anatomy lab is often a humbling and monumental moment in a doctor’s career. Students spend hours toiling over dead bodies with gratitude and reverence for the donation that ...

Many medical institutions in North Carolina are in need of whole body donations to support their medical programs and healthcare trainings. "One of the greatest gifts a person could make is to donate ...

More than 500 family and friends attended an interfaith memorial service at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, for those who donated their bodies to SLU's School of Medicine ...

Usha Nellore’s beautiful letter to the editor, “Med students grateful for donated cadavers” (Jan. 14), struck a nerve. While donating organs and tissue is a tremendous and generous gift, there are ...

This may be morbid, but — I’m getting married soon and the conversation about wills came up with my partner. I don’t care what happens to my body after I die. I also don’t want to burden the people I ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Have you asked yourself where you want your body to go when you die? There is a growing interest in donating bodies to science. Medical schools, like the one at Ohio State, ...

Susan Potter’s body will not be an ordinary cadaver. Far from it. She wanted to donate her body to science. After her death in 2015 at age 87, Potter was placed in polyvinyl blocks and frozen. Then ...