Would you donate your body for medical purpose after your de
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Would you donate your body for medical purpose after your death?
Fewer than 10 bodies donated to medical research every year
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 28 January 2009 2045 hrs
SINGAPORE: Fewer than 10 bodies are donated to medical research in Singapore each year. One cancer victim who died on Tuesday decided to pledge her body under the Medical Therapy Education and Research Act.
TV journalist Shin Na was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and on Tuesday, she bid a final farewell to her husband and two children.
Shin has decided to donate her body to medical research, one of about six to nine people who pledge their bodies for donation every year.
In whole body donations, all organs and tissues such as kidney, liver, heart, cornea, lung, bone and skin can be used for research, transplant or education.
This is unlike the opt-out Human Organ Transplant Act, where only the heart, liver, cornea and kidneys are used.
Tony Raza, Shin Na's husband, said: “She would always be focused on things like the environment or recycling or saving energy or helping cases. So in death, as in life, I think she was happy to find a way she could help out. She tells the kids that maybe the research can help find some sort of cure for cancer for other mothers out there.
Donated bodies are sent to the experimental labs of either the National University Hospital or Singapore General Hospital.
The Health Ministry said that autopsies on the donated body can reveal the onset of co-morbid conditions. For example, from autopsies that were performed, doctors now know that blood vessels can harden from cholesterol plaque formed in early adulthood.
Donated bodies have many uses. Besides using bodies to educate doctors on anatomy and surgical operations, tissues can be taken from them to study the function of blood vessels and the effects of drugs on them.
Also, bones, joints and muscles from the donated bodies can be used for research on the mechanical effects of artificial discs or in constructing software that can be used for imaging purposes.
Shin's five-year-old daughter now said she wants to pledge her body too in future.
Because to her, a body is just that, while memories of her mother will live on in her mind.
In an interview recorded in October 2007, Shin Na said: “Since this recurrence, I've made a point of telling her every night when I tuck her, that I will always love her and I will be in her heart. I put my hand on her heart, and I saw that I will always be there, even when I'm not.”
In cases where a person had not pledged his organs before passing away, family members could donate his organs upon his death, if they wish to do so.
To do that, next-of-kin can approach the National Organ Transplant Unit (NOTU).
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...405425/1/.html
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IF I DIED......I WOULD TAKE ARSENIC PILLS BEFORE I DIED....SO HOWEVER EATS OR DESECRATES ME BODY...THEY WILL JOIN ME TOO!!
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Originally posted by Gattlinggun80:
IF I DIED......I WOULD TAKE ARSENIC PILLS BEFORE I DIED....SO HOWEVER EATS OR DESECRATES ME BODY...THEY WILL JOIN ME TOO!!
ARSENIC PILLS - very lethal one
what about rat poison
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The body is only a temporary surrogate of your soul. You come with nothing, you also go with nothing....you cannot take your body along.
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Ashes to ashes...dust to dust....if u can accept this simple fact...ur body is no more then a vassal to house ur soul.....if donating ur body is for the better of this world.....why not.....
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psst...me body is not part of HUM R'US!
its sacred............just like the pharoahs tomb with booby traps.
no rat poison............but there are some people who might want to torpedo my behind even when im dead,,,,might as well have arsenic pills b4 i die...that way torpedo man will die too.
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to me, with your condition, whether u take arse pills or not, it doesn't matter, for that matter, even the zoo animals also reject you.
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Originally posted by Gattlinggun80:
psst...me body is not part of HUM R'US!
its sacred............just like the pharoahs tomb with booby traps.
no rat poison............but there are some people who might want to torpedo my behind even when im dead,,,,might as well have arsenic pills b4 i die...that way torpedo man will die too.
hawhat a humour!
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oh yes angel,
the animals love hum!!!!can see them gobbling u with blood from their nose n whiskers!!its ok.....animals dun touch me ...tis better!!
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Originally posted by Gattlinggun80:
oh yes angel,
the animals love hum!!!!can see them gobbling u with blood from their nose n whiskers!!its ok.....animals dun touch me ...tis better!!
ya, just remember to take your Arse pills in time ya -
MAKE SURE YA HUM DIES IN TIME TOO B4 ANIMALS GOBBLE U UP....