STIFF
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
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?
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I think that I would be too afraid to.Throughout the whole book I just kept thinking about whether I would let these things happen to my body after I die. Would I let scientists leave my body to rot while maggots feed on my remains so they could figure out what happens when a body decomposes? Would I let scientists hack off a thigh just so they can shoot at it? In the end I am still unsure but I know that if I do decide to, it would be for the benefit of science.
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