Donate Or Not?

I have now got to the conclusion of Stiff and it speaks of the author giving their body to science. As I have read this book I continuously ask myself and the people around me would you donate your body to science? Once I received my driver’s license I decided to give my organs, yet I never knew anything about cadavers until I read this book. Now I wonder if I should give my body, simply because if they are going to take my organs they mine as well take the whole thing. My friend thought otherwise; he said, "They can have my organs, but when I am laid down to die I want to be inside my coffin dead not thrown everywhere and people touching and detaching body parts." I can understand and once science have your body you cannot tell them don’t do that, don’t do this. Since you have read this book, would you donate your body to science, why or why not?

Just A Head

Can you believe that a human brain can work for up to 12 seconds after detached from the human body? I sure cannot. It is weird to say but I would think after a head is taken from a body that the human will automatically die, yet it doesnt for atleast 12 seconds. It was explained that if someone was to ask the head a question, they have the ability to answer by using their eyes but not their voice because the head is no longer attached to the lungs. I believe that is really cool and I would love to try it one day, well not cut someone head off but be able to talk to a head. If you could ask a human head something after you have cut their head off, what would you ask?