My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of "giving back". The program didn't disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently "unusual" bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.

So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.

No way, we only care about what's on the inside. And if the inside is weird, even better! I love seeing some shit I've never seen before. We have meetings on odd findings because that's how you suss out patterns no one has picked up on before.

I mean... I'm not a scientist, but wouldn't that be a good thing? A scientifically uninteresting specimen, to me, means no abnormalities, no weird diseases, bog-standard "nothing interesting, they just died."

I feel bad for the surgeons training on my cadaver, because my perfect body will tell them nothing of you mere mortals.

You're just gonna be used as practice for med students 👍

They don't care. They're just going to blow you up, anyway.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198405

Can someone turn me into a servo skull I want to follow around field researchers and screech at them in binary.

I'm only donating my body to science so none of my family is left with the bill for the cremation and burial. I guess it'll be fun for them since I've already had my gallbladder and appendix removed. By the time I die who knows what'll be left.

Luckily, the military takes the body from the science folks and blows it up! FOR SCIENCE!

They will use it as an example of what happens when a human doesn't take care of themselves.

Even better: I'm going to write my PhD thesis on this one!

Yep, furnace me on expiration please

If youlive in the us, even the most umwater bodies have fheir uses: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodybrokers-industry/

This feels like a Mitch Hedberg quote, I think he'd appreciate it

"You're fucking up the curve!"

Only if its female menstruation blood (ive seed a documentary that it is good stuff, even with some stem cells so it could be a source without adding any additional pain to get some BUT because no one is used to it being a topic even someone researching feces did go ewwwww)