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• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  “You’re fucking up the curve!”

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.

  So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.

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  • Marty_Purtell@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry for your loss

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re telling me my disgustingly obese body is useful for something

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your body can fuel the cremation ovens for days

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just my luck. I’ll be worth an absolute fortune…AFTER I’m dead.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Humans are worth more dead than alive. No news.

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    • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      put me down for one freeze-dried disk of comrade potate here

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only if its female menstruation blood (ive seed a documentary that it is good stuff, even with some stem cells so it could be a source without adding any additional pain to get some BUT because no one is used to it being a topic even someone researching feces did go ewwwww)

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• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No way, we only care about what's on the inside. And if the inside is weird, even better! I love seeing some shit I've never seen before. We have meetings on odd findings because that's how you suss out patterns no one has picked up on before.

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  • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I caught something rare once, cutaneous leishmaniosis.

    I had to go to a special doctor for tropical medicine associatied to the university.

    The doctor asked if I mind, and as I didn’t she called in a couple of students.

    “Look, this is a typical lesion of leishmaniosis, the red wall and a sore in the middle…”

    Explaining to them, what they’d need to look out for.

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• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean… I’m not a scientist, but wouldn’t that be a good thing? A scientifically uninteresting apecimen, to me, means no abnormalities, no weird diseases, bog-standard “nothing interesting, they just died.”

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  • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s implying the opposite, that they abused their body so much during life that they no longer qualify to be donated. Weight is one of the major disqualifiers for whole-body donation.

    The vast majority of bodies go to medical institutions for surgical training, with a smaller percent going to research

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    • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why is weight a disqualifier?

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    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, hadn’t thought about it that way! And, fair point, different types of interest in science.

      Also think the “for science” specifier set it so that the entire thing would be research oriented:)) Were it for donation of organs, yeah… not much use for a nuked lover=)))

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  • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Education-wise it is best to have an “uninteresting” cadaver to start with. Otherwise one might spend half a lesson trying to figure out something beyond their scope. But after grasping the basics it is best to delve into such variations, otherwise one might learn them mid-surgery. For research it is best to have the test subject be as “normal” as possible (unless the research is about the variation), so the findings are not skewed.

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    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep! Most definitely not a scientist!:))) Thank you so much for the details, this has brought me to the point where I’m starting to understand what I don’t know about research in general!

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That one medical student who picks up your head and comically operates your jaw …

    “Hey look at me everyone, I’m a cadaver!”

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would pay extra to guarantee i was used as a comedy prop.

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    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mum used to tell me stories about how dad and a mate of his would prank a third dude while practicing on bodies by casually having lunch over an open chest cavity, with the full salad on display. Frequently made the third guy lose his.

      So far, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree, so… yeah:))) Most likely=))))

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a good way to get kicked out of the wet lab. Most tutors are incredibly serious about treating bodies with respect, you can’t take photos, or muck around with them.

      Going Hamlet with them would be absolutely not on.

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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel bad for the surgeon's training on my cadaver, because my perfect body will tell them nothing of you mere mortals.

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• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Luckily, the military takes the body from the science folks and blows it up! FOR SCIENCE!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    excuse me but i’m donating to physics not medical

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, the old polonium trick!

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can someone turn me into a servo skull I want to follow around field researchers and screech at them in binary.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Let them have no respite from my annoyingness!

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• RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m only donating my body to science so none of my family is left with the bill for the cremation and burial. I guess it’ll be fun for them since I’ve already had my gallbladder and appendix removed. By the time I time who knows what’ll be left.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your still living brain in a jar

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They don’t care. They’re just going to blow you up, anyway.

  www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198405

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They will use it as an example of what happens when a human doesn’t take care of themselves.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I take care of myself 10-12 times a day, on average. In case they wonder about all the wear and tear.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I always give a fuck of what people think or do, more if I’m dead

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• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even better: I’m going to write my PhD thesis on this one!

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep, furnace me on expiration please

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This feels like a Mitch Hedberg quote, I think he’d appreciate it

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