Selling your body for science

CantGetNoSleep · 30-01-2009 2:32pm #1

Is it true that Universtities will give you money if you promise to donate your body to them after you die?

drunkmonkey · 30-01-2009 2:41pm

are you blonde, if so i'll give you some money for your body before you die, you can even have it back afterwards if you like:)

I think you can, smokers bodys are worth more;)

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2009 2:43pm

Dude... I think it's a dude

EDIT: Just saw your location. Nevermind.

drunkmonkey · 30-01-2009 2:45pm

thanks Jimmy;)

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 2:48pm

The only problem after you sign your bits and pieces over is that you have to keep looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life. Sometimes they like a fresh one. :eek:

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2009 2:48pm

"I'd sell this thread for science and get nothing LOL coz it iz crap i meen" etc...

Wibbs · 30-01-2009 2:48pm

I've left mine to science fiction.

Corruptedmorals · 30-01-2009 3:01pm

Apparently Trinity have a backlog of bodies and have stopped accepting donations for the next year or so.. But in the UK, they're appealing for more, apparently because over there you can't pick which university you want.

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 3:05pm

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Apparently Trinity have a backlog of bodies and have stopped accepting donations for the next year or so.. But in the UK, they're appealing for more, apparently because over there you can't pick which university you want.

Don't they rent them out so that they can up the numbers in The Dáil for the tv cameras?

Mena · 30-01-2009 3:07pm

You can donate your body, they certainly do not pay for them.

blipp · 30-01-2009 3:08pm

No, you don't get any money. A free burial is it I think.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 30-01-2009 3:09pm

Yes, but you have to do a "Leaving Life exam". This involves two years of study (and Irish IS ccompulsory). If you score a required number of points then you can pick a university on a CAO (Cadaver Aquisitioning and Organs) form and hope you get in.

cocoa · 30-01-2009 3:13pm

'nuff said...

Collie D · 30-01-2009 5:55pm

I considered doing this but I didn't want the med students in Trinity feeling inadequate. The world needs happy doctors.

Tom65 · 30-01-2009 6:14pm

This seems like a good deal. I get money for not doing anything. Except dying. Though then again they're not paying you to die, they're paying you for not being alive.

"pleasing taste, some monsterism"

SoWatchaWant · 30-01-2009 7:50pm

I'm in Trinity and I have access to the bodies. I'd encourage any young blood to give themselves, preferably after dying prematurely.

All the bodies are those of pensioners, and you can't make out a thing.

galwayrush · 30-01-2009 8:55pm

I was asked to donate mine, something to do with drinking and not getting hangovers.

galwayrush · 30-01-2009 9:01pm

When my wife was in college, she was wheeling a lot of equipment across a yard when some guy shouted from a window asking if she wanted a hand.
Next thing she's hit on the head with a disembodied human hand.:D

AckwelFoley · 30-01-2009 9:16pm

I wouldnt give my body to science.

I fear that the college gays would look at my nakid coprse drool uncontrolably and try to buttsekz me. Even dead, id still clench the buttcheeks. I figure my way around this is to have "I have AIDS" tattoo'd to my arse.

Irish Halo · 30-01-2009 9:26pm

Mena wrote: »

You can donate your body, they certainly do not pay for them.

Exactly you donate your body to science, selling your body is a more active (but well established) profession and just because the john is a scientist doesn't make it selling your body for science

me2gud4u · 30-01-2009 9:51pm

I wouldn't give my body to science.......purely because im a med student and i've seen what happens to them on a friday afternoon and the mess that is made when we really don't have a very good idea what we are looking for and are fumbling around with a scalpel thinking we are cutting the right thing to be then told we aren't....in the meantime some light butchering has occured.

But yes to more young bodies....... anatomical features not as clear in old old people.

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 10:20pm

snyper wrote: »

I wouldnt give my body to science.

I fear that the college gays would look at my nakid coprse drool uncontrolably and try to buttsekz me. Even dead, id still clench the buttcheeks. I figure my way around this is to have "I have AIDS" tattoo'd to my arse.

You could always have a clause in your will, stipulating that your hole has to be bricked up, thereby preventing necrophilial buttsekz. It might also kick-start the construction industry.:P

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