I have donated parts of me. It would actually be an honor to help someone learn from my life mistakes.
One important thing, if it is important to you, make sure arrangement have been made and people are aware.
My father died two years ago today. He had been involved in a study at Vanderbilt looking into Interstitial Lung Disease for over four years. He was slowly dying from the disease and knew it.
I never took the time to ask him what he wanted done with his body, I guess I figured he would live forever, and by the time I asked about either donating his body to the program or at a minimum an autopsy he had already been embalmed. So much potential information lost because of my negligence.
Hell, I don’t even know if it would have been possible for Vandy to have accepted him. I don’t think you can donate someone elses body. Anybody know for sure about this?
I don’t know whether he would have wanted Vanderbilt to be able to look at his lungs and the rest of him after he had died, but I believe he would have. He was so involved with the notebooks and testing. He knew it would not help him but it was important to him to be involved.