If ever anyone asks what I want to do with my body after I die, I always proselytize for full body donation. That’s my plan.
The documents say to put me on the loading dock at Barnes Hospital downtown. After that, they can do what they want. I am told the medical students are very respectful, but truly I don’t care. I might like to be a little disrespected.
However, the point is moot. I was looking at the documents today. Look at this stamped nonsense.
Approved in 1998, VOID one year later?
This thing has been void since 1999?
Seriously. Thank God I didn’t die in the last 23 years.
7 responses to “Well That Was Lucky”
… Uh. Expires one year later? This seems like… a bad structure, for end-of-life documents, really.
KC – I suppose if you were on your last legs it would make sense. Perhaps it was just for the MS program. Certainly a typical full-body donation doesn’t have that constraint..
I’m glad it doesn’t typically have that constraint – I can’t imagine literally being on your last legs and going “well, gonna die within a month – oh, that’s right, my body donation expired last month, gotta get another one” while dealing with everything else!
KC – exactly! THAT’S WHY i thought I could get it taken care of up front. I need to make some calls and find a bettwe way to do the same thing.
Hope it works out easily and well.
(also, I hope it doesn’t end up being relevant at all for a few decades, just to note.)
KC – same! October taught me things can turn on a dime (or appear that way if information is withheld).