If you want to know the possible uses for your body when you're donated to medical science, check out Stiff, the book that I recommended/reviewed in my previous entry ;)
It's quite fascinating.
As for organ harvesting, unless you die relatively young, I'm not sure they harvest too much from you. I got the impression that this was often something that happened when you were young-ish, and of course in great health. But I could be mistaken, the book didn't really contain anything about the particular requirements of an organ donor (or "beating-heart cadaver").
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Date: 2004-11-12 07:07 pm (UTC)It's quite fascinating.
As for organ harvesting, unless you die relatively young, I'm not sure they harvest too much from you. I got the impression that this was often something that happened when you were young-ish, and of course in great health. But I could be mistaken, the book didn't really contain anything about the particular requirements of an organ donor (or "beating-heart cadaver").