Donating Body to Medicine....too thrifty?

DKLS

Newcastle University Medical school accepts cadavers as they still use cadavic teaching methods for med students. Depends when you die though as they are unindated during the winter months.

babyshoes

It would be good to have a backup funeral fund in a separate savings account, because as others have said the medical schools have strict rules about accepting bodies, and may not be able to take yours if you die at the wrong age / from the wrong thing / at a time when they are full. I am sure they will explain the rules when you contact them to make arrangements.

SailorSam

I'd gladly offer my body, any parts that could be recycled and then the rest for medical students to practise on. Not particularly as a money saving thing but simply 'cos i'll have finished using it and i don't like wasting anything that could be of use.
My Mum had signed a donor card and after she died i pointed out that she wanted her body to go to whoever could benefit from it, but 'cos she had been dead a couple of days when we found her they said it was to late.