Word: bequeathment
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...only nine states, excluding Massachusetts, permit persons legally to bequeath their bodies for experimental purposes...
...Briton who took advantage of the system explained it bluntly in a letter to the Daily Telegraph: "There is a little-known way of avoiding the cost and misery of a funeral-a way that enables most of us to be of more use dead than alive. Simply bequeath your body to the nearest medical school...
This is an extension of the plan for cornea, bone and artery banks, to which individuals may bequeath parts of their bodies. While the law has not interfered with these in the U.S., many state courts have held that a man cannot use his will to dispose of his entire remains. If a relative objected, no medical school would risk public disapproval by seeking to enforce such a will. In nine states,* however, laws have been passed specifically permitting these bequests. Georgia School of Medicine has received only one body in five years as a result of this provision...
...recent years the Dukes of Devonshire have been fighting a rearguard action against the welfare state. High death duties were making it difficult for them to bequeath their treasures intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over...
Rumors that Bernard Berenson '87 might bequeath his internationally famous library and collection of Italian paintings to the University were acknowledged with reservations by John Coolidge '35, director of the Fogg Art Museum, last night...