Thinking Of Donating Your Body To Science? Here’s Why You’re A Hero
Published August 14th, 2019
Whole body donation is a type of donation where you simply offer your body to science. Have you heard of organ donation? Whole body donation is like that except for the fact that they have a different purpose.
In organ donation, you offer part of your body to someone who needs it to lengthen its life.
For instance, someone you know needs a kidney transplant. You can donate part of your organ so he/she can live without waiting for you to die. This is called Living organ donation.
In other cases, there are transplants where a donor needs to die first before the organs can be donated. An example of that is a heart transplant. This is called a deceased organ donation.
But whether it is a deceased organ donation or a living organ donation, both help other people to have a long life. Heroic isn’t it?
In whole body donation, it’s purpose is to help scientists do more research on the human body. It allows researchers, doctors, and medical students to further their knowledge of medicine.
Why Does It Makes You A Hero When You Donate Your Body to Science
As mentioned above, when you donate your body to science, you offer your body to the advancement of medicine. You allow your body to be researched on.
So why does it makes you a hero?
Once you die, you allow medical researchers to understand the human body. You allow your body to be the key to the advancement of science. Medical researchers will be able to experiment and answer today’s medical problems.
Doctors and medical students can further their knowledge and hone their skills. With your body, it’s not only them that you’re helping. But, also thousands of lives that advanced science can help.
For instance, with the help of your body, medical experts can research more about cancer, or HIV, or other medical conditions that the world is currently facing.
How to Donate Your Body to Science and Be a Hero
There’s a lot of ways on how to be a whole body donor.
You can register online to accredited institutions like DonorCure. We treat our donors with great respect and try our best to match their donation to the medical research they want to support.
You can also apply directly to institutions if you wish to help doctors or medical students. You can have your body willed to any institutions that offer donation programs.
So if you think you’re only a hero when you save someone’s life from accidents, injuries and such, then you’re completely wrong.
Donating your body to science may help thousands of lives in the future. Isn’t it wonderful to save many lives even if you’re already in the afterlife?
Remember, not all heroes wear capes, some donate their bodies to science.
Be a hero, register to be a donor now.
About The Author
As a nurse, Franchette Agatha Jardin firmly believes in the importance of understanding the human body and the advancement of science. She writes about what people can do for the betterment of the world and how everyone can be part of something great.
