How do I donate my body to a medical school?

[OUAT41]

Hello Does anyone have info on someone being able to to donate ones body to medical school. 

[bbko]

Please let this be a typo, is it baby or body?

[bob smith]

15 minutes ago, OUAT41 said:

Hello Does anyone have info on someone being able to to donate ones body to medical school. 

why dont you charge a fee instead?

[Liverpool Lou]

37 minutes ago, OUAT41 said:

Hello Does anyone have info on someone being able to to donate ones body to medical school. 

Yes, you just contact a medical school.

[norfolkandchance]

Contact your nearest government hospital.

A guy up here in the NE died suddenly a year ago. No money for funeral. The local hospital was approached who then passed it onto the larger government hospital. It was approved. After the medical school had finished with the remains they are cremated. Good luck.

[ezzra]

You read all sorts of strange and weird posts in this forum, but this has to take the cake.

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, norfolkandchance said:

Contact your nearest government hospital.

A guy up here in the NE died suddenly a year ago. No money for funeral. The local hospital was approached who then passed it onto the larger government hospital. It was approved. After the medical school had finished with the remains they are cremated. Good luck.

Hospitals / teaching hospitals have different policies / re possible uses of deceased bodies:

 

- Transplants, but subject to age and medical condtion of the deceased  / the organs involved.

- Ongoing medical research, but subject to the 'quality of the remains', perhaps won't accept all bodies.

- Dissection training / surgery skills training

- More... 

[norfolkandchance]

5 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Hospitals / teaching hospitals have different policies / re possible uses of deceased bodies:

 

- Transplants, but subject to age and medical condtion of the deceased  / the organs involved.

- Ongoing medical research, but subject to the 'quality of the remains', perhaps won't accept all bodies.

- Dissection training / surgery skills training

- More... 

yes. I agree with all your comments. Best the OP gets the criteria from the hospital he asks at.

[MrBrad]

9 minutes ago, ezzra said:

You read all sorts of strange and weird posts in this forum, but this has to take the cake.

I don't understand where this guy's coming from.  There's nothing weird about the OP's post.

 

The reverse side of my donor card states:

  "The holder of this card is willing to dedicate his body to the Faculty of Medicine for education and research upon death.  When the holder of this card dies, relatives or close people should contact the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University within 24 hours

Telephone 053-935-318 between 8:30 AM and 8:00 PM.  Public holidays between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM."

 

Over 500 bodies are used by the medical students at CMU every year.  In December a mass cremation ceremony is held at Wat Latthiwan (Wat Kon Tan : วัดลัฎฐิวัน วัดขอนตาล) along the Ping River near Mae Rim.  Combined ashes are scattered into the river.

 

About three years ago an acquaintance of mine from Minneapolis was among those who were cremated that year.

[motdaeng]

31 minutes ago, ezzra said:

You read all sorts of strange and weird posts in this forum, but this has to take the cake.

nothing weird ablut that ... 

 

i contacted the government hospital because i would like to donate my organs in the event

of my passing. unfortunately, there seems to be an age limit (50 ?). therefore, i have decided

to donate my body to the medical school. i always carry my donation card with me ...

 

 

[connda]

17 minutes ago, MrBrad said:

I don't understand where this guy's coming from.  There's nothing weird about the OP's post.

 

The reverse side of my donor card states:

  "The holder of this card is willing to dedicate his body to the Faculty of Medicine for education and research upon death.  When the holder of this card dies, relatives or close people should contact the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University within 24 hours

Telephone 053-935-318 between 8:30 AM and 8:00 PM.  Public holidays between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM."

 

Over 500 bodies are used by the medical students at CMU every year.  In December a mass cremation ceremony is held at Wat Latthiwan (Wat Kon Tan : วัดลัฎฐิวัน วัดขอนตาล) along the Ping River near Mae Rim.  Combined ashes are scattered into the river.

 

About three years ago an acquaintance of mine from Minneapolis was among those who were cremated that year.

Wife and I signed up a couple of years ago.  Easy breezy. 

[Felton Jarvis]

I did some research on this and found (in typical Thai fashion) that unless your body is more or less in pristine condition, they don’t want it. No cancer, no missing organs such as gall bladder or prostate. I thought I had found a way to avoid the high cost of being cremated, but I was wrong. There’s always a catch.

[Rimmer]

A post contravening our Community Standards has been removed.    

[isaanistical]

1 hour ago, MrBrad said:

In December a mass cremation ceremony is held at Wat Latthiwan (Wat Kon Tan : วัดลัฎฐิวัน วัดขอนตาล) along the Ping River near Mae Rim.

.... and in the West they call them wildfires.

 

Some posters questioning the validity of the OP's enquiry. Why?

Only point I would make is that few outlets will want bodies of the age of most of these readers.

[Olmate]

Sqeemish anyone, give that a wide berth.! 

[Scouse123]

My cousin did it recently in the UK after he succumbed to cancer.

 

I'd never heard nor thought about it.

[AustinRacing]

Make sure you stipulate “after I’m dead” in your dealings with hospital. Otherwise you may attract organ harvesters ready to put your bits into a Chinese recipient. 

[jij]

you might want to first read the book "Stiff", about what actually happens to bodies  that are donated, you could just as easily end up as a 'crash test dummy'

[Dionigi]

26 minutes ago, jij said:

you might want to first read the book "Stiff", about what actually happens to bodies  that are donated, you could just as easily end up as a 'crash test dummy'

So what, you are dead, I don't suppose you care at that point.

[Tropposurfer]

16 hours ago, MrBrad said:

I don't understand where this guy's coming from.  There's nothing weird about the OP's post.

 

The reverse side of my donor card states:

  "The holder of this card is willing to dedicate his body to the Faculty of Medicine for education and research upon death.  When the holder of this card dies, relatives or close people should contact the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University within 24 hours

Telephone 053-935-318 between 8:30 AM and 8:00 PM.  Public holidays between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM."

 

Over 500 bodies are used by the medical students at CMU every year.  In December a mass cremation ceremony is held at Wat Latthiwan (Wat Kon Tan : วัดลัฎฐิวัน วัดขอนตาล) along the Ping River near Mae Rim.  Combined ashes are scattered into the river.

 

About three years ago an acquaintance of mine from Minneapolis was among those who were cremated that year.

If the idea of death is frightening, hard to entertain, its not so strange, if you think on that possible line of the OP's thought.

[sandyf]

17 hours ago, ezzra said:

You read all sorts of strange and weird posts in this forum, but this has to take the cake.

Nothing unusual there.

My younger brother was an expat in Canada and he did it to avoid any of the family having to travel to the funeral, died 2017.

I am from Scotland and my mother made the arrangements back in the early 60s when still in her 30s, died 1976.

[Jelli]

I don't believe you can. I think there are issues with both being over 50 as well as being a foreigner. In fact I had read this sometime in the past on this forum

[FolkGuitar]

Please keep in mind before you show up; you can only donate your OWN body...  ????

[hml367]

"I don't believe you can. I think there are issues with both being over 50 as well as being a foreigner. In fact I had read this sometime in the past on this forum"

 

I was over 50 and non-Thai  when I registered at Maharaj some years ago.

[scorecard]

17 hours ago, Felton Jarvis said:

I did some research on this and found (in typical Thai fashion) that unless your body is more or less in pristine condition, they don’t want it. No cancer, no missing organs such as gall bladder or prostate. I thought I had found a way to avoid the high cost of being cremated, but I was wrong. There’s always a catch.

Seems that if the person died of a cause/disease that is under serious research then they will often take the body. But that's special circumstances.

[The Fugitive]

Might be helpful;  https://chulalongkornhospital.go.th/kcmh/en/body-and-organ-donations/

[MrBrad]

1 hour ago, Jelli said:

I don't believe you can. I think there are issues with both being over 50 as well as being a foreigner. In fact I had read this sometime in the past on this forum

Maybe, but apparently there are exceptions, based on what exactly, I don't know.  The cadaver that I referred to above was definitely a foreigner, and definitely well over 65.  As for me, I'm an old foreigner; my application was accepted and I was issued a donor card. 

[CMBob]

I wonder if somebody would explain the practicalities of body donation, i.e., okay, the foreigner died and the body

sits in the hospital morgue.  What's next? 

 

[Would note that typically what's required for release of a body from the morgue is (1) police approval (which will be promptly given provided there are no strange death circumstances), (2) authorization letter from you embassy/consulate (for a US citizen, that authority would be given to who you've named in a valid Will, your named executor, or whoever they find via their "next-of-kin" search); and (3) payment of hospital/morgue expenses.

I'm also guessing that whoever the embassy/consulate authorizes release of the body to must also choose to honor the body donation.. right?]

[The Fugitive]

1 hour ago, CMBob said:

I wonder if somebody would explain the practicalities of body donation, i.e., okay, the foreigner died and the body

sits in the hospital morgue.  What's next? 

 

[Would note that typically what's required for release of a body from the morgue is (1) police approval (which will be promptly given provided there are no strange death circumstances), (2) authorization letter from you embassy/consulate (for a US citizen, that authority would be given to who you've named in a valid Will, your named executor, or whoever they find via their "next-of-kin" search); and (3) payment of hospital/morgue expenses.

I'm also guessing that whoever the embassy/consulate authorizes release of the body to must also choose to honor the body donation.. right?]

Acceptance of your cadaver is 'subject to available space'. If the medical school already have a full freezer your kind offer would be declined. Also, there are time limits for obvious reasons.

[scorecard]

On 8/24/2023 at 5:55 PM, Felton Jarvis said:

I did some research on this and found (in typical Thai fashion) that unless your body is more or less in pristine condition, they don’t want it. No cancer, no missing organs such as gall bladder or prostate. I thought I had found a way to avoid the high cost of being cremated, but I was wrong. There’s always a catch.

"(in typical Thai fashion)"    How does that fit into this story?