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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
you can get free cremation if you donate their bodies to universities for med students to practice exams, research, etc. My mom has two options for research, Harvard and Tufts medical schools. UMASS didn't return my phone calls. .
the body will be cremated when finished and shipped back to you. They will pay for removing the body as well. if you have power of attorney, then you can fill in the paperwork, as long as they verbally agree with any other family members present for witnesses, depending upon their ability to comprehend.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters... book by Atul Gawande
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I looked into donating my body to a college a few years back when my daughter was getting a medical degree and I realized what a gift that is to the students to do something like that. I didn’t try to contact any university. I did my search online. What I found out was that the educational systems, at least the ones I researched, does NOT pay to have the body transported to them, and one does have to have pre-balming done before the body is sent to them. Afterwards, 2 years I believe it is, the family member has the option of the ashes being sent back to them, or allowing the university to do a ceremony which thanks all the donors, and the ashes spread somewhere. I believe in Florida it is over the Gulf of Mexico.