Short Documentary - Looking for Mariners in long distance relationships

[j.sabourn]

No bigger separation than popping your clogs. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

My late sister donated her body to science a couple of years ago just before she died. There is no monetary gain apart from the University which takes it must pay for the burial and it must be buried (apparently) within three years of the demise and where the family wants it, the surviving spouse (if any) having the final say.

Do they have to put the body back together or do they bury the bits?

[Ivan Cloherty]

Do they have to put the body back together or do they bury the bits?

No idea John, but don't think I'll ask my brother-in-law

[Captain Kong]

Regarding leaving your body for research in the UK, they give you a free cremation.
My old Aunt died two years ago and she was 99 years and six months old. my mothers younger sister.
They took her eyes for cornea grafts and used her Bones, they were turned into powder and then used in bone grafts.
We got her ashes back later.
, My old mate Guy, died in the Sailors home in Banstead Surrey, they used his body.
Six months after he died his ashes were delivered to his brothers house in a casket.
It is usually used in the disecting department for first year Medical Students, to operate on.
My son said when he was there, a fellow student fainted, when they lifted the sheet off the corpse or cadaver, it was his own Uncle staring back at him.
When it was Liverpool University Open Day he took me into the disecting room, a very strange feeling, many body parts were on display preserved in fluid.
They do all kinds of operations on the bodies.

Cheers
Brian.

[Lou Barron]

Talking about what happens when you died just a few weeks ago when my brother in law died (ex MN) most of my family was at the service afterwards we all went and had a bit if a drinking session and my three sons was there after a good few beers one my sons said Dad we have organised your funeral first of all we are going to put in your coffin your old betting slips and empty gin bottles then get the harbour dredge and take you out to sea and let you go .

[j.sabourn]

Lou tell them you want a Vikings funeral, Valhalla and all the trimmings. Also want full gin bottles and not empty ones. If not you"ll cut them all off without a penny. Cheers you've got a lot of years left yet in that tough body. Regards John S

[Captain Kong]

I was a bit scary of body part donations, heart , liver and so on. ... until I attended the Inquest on the dead of the POOL FISHER.
The Pathologist read out his actions on the three dead bodies that had been recovered.
it was like a shopping list for the butchers.
He had removed the brains, weighed them and examined them.
he removed the lungs, noted that they had died of hyperthermia and not drownuing as there was very little fluid in the lungs only a bit of foam.
He had removed the Liver, one had a little damage from the effects of alcohol, the Livers were weighed on the scales.
The heart on one body after removal had signs of heart disease.
the Kydneys were also removed and weighed on scales and examined.
The lady it was noted had no sexual activity prior to death.
.......
and so it went on.
other bodies were washed up three months later but totally unrecognisable as they were in pieces and no DNA in those days. So they were quietly cremated, the Police told me it would have caused more upset as the rel;atives would all be claiming them.
So I thought, if you do not want to donate body parts they are going to take them away regardless.
so maybe you might as well live on a bit longer inside someone elses body and keep them alive.
Cheers
Brian

[gray_marian]

#40 & 44, After reading tsell's & Brian's view on body donation I am seriously thinking of now doing the same. I like the idea that family still obtain an urn after three years to bury and visit if desired but more importantly it seems such a waste not to.

[Captain Kong]

I am still working on the Theory that if you refuse to go then they cannot take you.
So far against all odds it has worked.
Brian

[tsell]

Hi Marian,
That's good to hear! Here, there is a Garden of Remembrance where they hold a service and, if required will inter your ashes.
Another point for people who may be considering the donation, but are in some doubt, here are my doctor's words: "Most people don't stop to think that when they die, there is every chance that their body will be dissected on the Post Mortem table!"
My brother's mother-in-law died last year, suddenly during the night, a few days after being sent home with 'a week or so to live' due to terminal cancer. The family were surprised to learn that her remains would not be released for burial until completion of a Post Mortem!
I wouldn't mind having a chat with somebody who has been through their body donation, but so far I haven't found anyone who has!