# Good idea to donate your body?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 5, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418 "2004-08-05T06:33:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418/21 "2004-08-06T00:39:41Z")

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There is also ‘The Body Farm’. (google it) Basically it’s a Forensic science school in Virgina I believe. Your donated body is made into a crime scene so college students and discover you and poke at you and what ever else they do. You do get to actually decompose into the earth though.

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**Author:** ![tailake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tailake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tailake)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418/22 "2004-08-06T04:10:00Z")

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Holy crap… wait till I tell Dad! You get to leave clues and everything! Know any other non-standard ways of losing your self?

We still have time to have some fun with this!  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418/23 "2004-08-06T06:21:07Z")

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> [@tailake](#):
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> Hi All.
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> My question is twofold… one , is there a place you can send your body where it will do some good, be treated with some respect and you get the bits back for a proper finale?

Being parted out does a LOT of good. And, as far as I am concerned- my “mortal clay” has no value, and doesn’t need to be treated with “respect”.

Being used as a medical cadaver saves lives, too.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418/24 "2004-08-06T06:50:27Z")

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> [@tailake](#):
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> Surplus bodies are sold to the military to be blown up and analyzed.

Okay, now I know how I want my body disposed of after I die.

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-idea-to-donate-your-body/258418/25 "2004-08-06T12:23:46Z")

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I watched a show about crash test dummies (the real ones…not the band) and back in the old days (like, 1950s…) they used real unclaimed cadavers in the car crashes. I thinkin’…it would be a real drag to be the janitor at that facility.

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