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To help out your community, you can easily donate old clothes, too big furniture and extra shoes. Giving your body to science, however, is a little different than stopping by the Salvation Army.
A cadaver donated to science can be incredibly valuable for research and education. In the 19th century, buried corpses were dug up for this very reason
There's no official number (since it's not regulated by a federal agency), but it is estimated about 20,000 bodies per year are donated to medical schools around the U.S., according to the Harvard Business School . But The Economist reports that demand for these bodies are too high while supply is too low, mostly because people aren't aware of the need Read more...
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