Donation of a Body for Research

Errata

Unfortunately bodies start to decompose the moment death occurs.

teddysmum

There was uproar when the media released information about undertaking companies' lack of respect for the dead, but what they were accused of pales into insignificance compared to what my best friend, then a medical student , told me about the way donated bodies were treated by some students. (I will not go into detail, but she was disgusted).

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My father in law's body was donated to Leeds University medical school. He was very elderly and had died from cancer, but they still took his body. They simply collected him from the undertaker, and my husband was sent the papers to sign. It was very straightforward.