Dead body donation is useful for me

Dead body donation is useful for medical research, education and also beneficial of needy (injured/diseased) living persons. In medical educational sector, usually medical students study anatomy, which deals with the study of composition of human body. Understanding of human anatomy requires indepth knowledge about human body organs, tissues, cells, which requires teaching based on cadaver dissection. Cadavers and donated bodies remain a principal teaching tool for anatomists and medical educators teaching gross anatomy. Hands on experience on dead body helps learn various medical concepts and nature of human body. There is ever increasing demand of cadavers for anatomy dissection. Apart from educational uses, dead body donation may also include specific organ donations which could be required for saving life of severaly injured or diseased living beings as well. Even then people are reluctant to donate their bodies after death due to various reasons. This research is made in order to know these factors which results in opposition to dead body donation. Study also suggests ways to actually increase awareness in our society about dead body donation.
In this study report we present a survey (attached in Annex- A) regarding potential whole-body donors in china. 100 random people (age range 18-75 years) answered a questionnaire, giving information about themselves, their reasons for donation, attitudes towards the dead body, funeral preferences, religious issues and medical giving and receiving. In addition to altruism, motives included the wish to avoid funeral ceremonies, to avoid waste, and in a few cases, to evade the expense of a funeral. As the attitudes of donors play a very crucial role in body donation, so it is required to conduct such studies which suggests methodologies to increase awareness about its usefulness in the society. The study conducted shows the suitability of body donation, importance of body donation and various factors such as age, religion, culture, personality characteristics, donor’s attitudes etc.
The Dead body donation is defined as the act of giving one’s body after death for medical research or educational and training purpose of medical students. Its also important in terms of donating specific organs as per requirement of different patients. Like patients with heart diseases, kidney failure, and other specific vitals organs which can be transplanted from a freshly dead person to a live patient. Although there have been advances in medical technology and donation, the demand for organ, eye and tissue donation still vastly exceeds the number of donors. More than 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants [1, 2]. With the increase in awaveness about body organ donations, around 978 lives were saved in the UK through a heart, lung, liver or combined heart/lungs, liver/kidney, liver/pancreas or heart/kidney transplant [3]. Apart from that, in medical research, dead bodies are studied and analyzed for understanding and exploring deeper knowledge about body functioning, for example.