The Great Cadaver Shortage: Inside Doctors’ Latest Crisis
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article in The Times.
This is the sub-heading.
Faced with a dwindling supply of fresh bodies to train on, British medical schools are having to turn to America’s low-regulation ‘tissue trade’. Would you donate yours, asks Jenny Kleeman
My late wife, C; left her body to medical science and I may well choose to do the same with my body.
She left her body to St. George’s Medical School, mainly because one of her friend’s mother had done the same and there had been no problems.
Looking back on the nearly twenty years since she died, I remember a few months after her death, there was a multi-faith joint Memorial Service in Southwark Cathedral for all those who’d donated their bodies, in the previous year.
None of my family were or are religious, but I’m sure the service helped our grieving, as it was a very moving and inclusive service, that was the Church of England at its best, with assistance from other faiths.
Perhaps if donation were to be linked to support for the bereaved and perhaps a Memorial Service, this might increase the level of donations.
What sort of affect would it create in a city like Liverpool, if the yearly service alternated around the major places of worship in the city and was well-covered on local media?
The Anonymous Widower 
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Comment by MauriceGReed | March 28, 2024 |