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His mom suffered from Alzheimer's, and he donated her body to an Alzheimer's research center. A few days later, he received a small amount of cremains, reportedly of a hand. But he learned that, within hours of donating her body, it had been sold to the military.
But they performed this experiment without permission.
Save your energy trying to explain.
A certain segment of posters couldn't care less about "permission" because their views are different on dead bodies and refuse to see others' viewpoints .
I would be so angry if this happened to my mother's body. The body was donated for Alzheimer's Disease research - NOT for being blasted to bits for profit. Big difference.
I'm seriously thinking about removing my permission to be a donor the next time my driver's license gets renewed. It's not exactly the same as this situation, but I'm finding there is an underbelly to this donation process to help others. Personally, I don't care what happens to my body. I want whatever to be the easiest option for my family. I want a headstone, but that's about it. I don't want my grieving family hassled any more than they have to be.
I'm seriously thinking about removing my permission to be a donor the next time my driver's license gets renewed. It's not exactly the same as this situation, but I'm finding there is an underbelly to this donation process to help others. Personally, I don't care what happens to my body. I want whatever to be the easiest option for my family. I want a headstone, but that's about it. I don't want my grieving family hassled any more than they have to be.
I still have it checked on my license, but I have to say I had a weird experience that made me wonder. I went to the hospital to see a friend who had a massive stroke. While I was there talking to her (she wasn’t conscious) a nurse came in and told me someone was on their way there to harvest her kidneys. It seemed so weird because she was still alive.
This happened to a friend of mine when her dad died--he also left his body to science, and then she and her siblings found out later it was used for blast testing.
Now, her dad had been a soldier in WWII, and my friend had said her dad would have probably been okay with doing one last thing for his fellow soldiers, but she said for her family, it was a case of they would have liked to have *known* that this was one of the possibilities beforehand. Which I can see. It does seem that this should be disclosed beforehand, and if the family's not good with it, then blast testing should not be done.
Myself, I'm of the 'if anything of me could be useful to somebody else, give it over to 'em' (heart, corneas, whatever) thought process. I do like the idea of whatever's left over being turned into a tree, but if whatever's left over gets blasted in Army testing--well, I was a soldier once. Better my dead body than a fellow soldier's live one. But that's *my* thinking for *my* remains. Nobody else is obliged to feel the same way.
This happened to a friend of mine when her dad died--he also left his body to science, and then she and her siblings found out later it was used for blast testing.
Now, her dad had been a soldier in WWII, and my friend had said her dad would have probably been okay with doing one last thing for his fellow soldiers, but she said for her family, it was a case of they would have liked to have *known* that this was one of the possibilities beforehand. Which I can see. It does seem that this should be disclosed beforehand, and if the family's not good with it, then blast testing should not be done.
Myself, I'm of the 'if anything of me could be useful to somebody else, give it over to 'em' (heart, corneas, whatever) thought process. I do like the idea of whatever's left over being turned into a tree, but if whatever's left over gets blasted in Army testing--well, I was a soldier once. Better my dead body than a fellow soldier's live one. But that's *my* thinking for *my* remains. Nobody else is obliged to feel the same way.
I also object to the that anyone is being paid that much money for bodies only for military use. I have a feeling pretty much every donated body went to military no matter what was checked on the form. Money should not be involved especially to some third party, of course it will corrupt the process.
His mom suffered from Alzheimer's, and he donated her body to an Alzheimer's research center. A few days later, he received a small amount of cremains, reportedly of a hand. But he learned that, within hours of donating her body, it had been sold to the military.
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