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Lori Tilden was in the room when her sister Kim died of breast cancer in 1998. The loss was devastating, but Lori took some consolation from the fact that her sister, a mother of two, had lived long enough to bequeath her remains to the UCLA willed-body program, hoping...
The tomb of Haitian strongman Amiot Metayer, who was murdered in September, can be found in the middle of a seaside slum in the city of Gonaives. His bust sits prominently under a white awning, accompanied by a photo of Metayer's cadaver with his eyes poked out. His heart...
Journalists are often compared to vultures. last week, as we circled the corpse Professor Gunther von Hagens splayed open in London's first public autopsy since the practice was banned 170 years ago, it was easy to see why. Around 250 of us showed up at the improvised anatomy theater...
This is real recycling--the body of the deceased is used to teach the next generation. Medical schools have different rules for body donation (generally the deceased must be adult and free of contagious disease and major trauma, including autopsy). When cadaver research is concluded, usually after two years, the...
So why would anyone choose to receive donated tissue? If there is no postoperative infection, a patient's recovery time can be much faster than if a graft is taken from his or her own body. A surgeon can more easily, and less invasively, replace knee ligaments with cadaver tissue...