Cashing in on your future corpse

Zebra3

So I'm watching Stephen Fry in America on BBC Four and he's after being in some "university" where they leave human corpses out in the open to learn from their natural decaying state for doing autopsies.

Just wondering, how much would it take for you to sign over your body that after you die, a similar institution would own your remains?

No burial for your family, but cash upfront for you to splurge/keep the wolf from the door while you're alive.

For me? Ten grand. :cool:

Oh_Noes

Ten grand eh? You fancy big fancypants.

jill_valentine

Ah, the Knoxville body farm.

Ten grand sounds about right. Sooner that than find out I'd been sold for parts without my knowledge, and had my bones swapped out for pipes.

RichieC

Half a curlywurly and a packet of love hearts.

Zebra3

RichieC wrote: »

Half a curlywurly and a packet of love hearts.

You're so cheap. :pac:

Saganist

10 grand for a body that they'll get in ( depending on age ) maybe 40 or 50 years ?

Sounds like a poor deal for the university.

admiralofthefleet

a diet pepsi

pragmatic1

I'd do it for a grand no problem.

Hasmunch

RichieC wrote: »

Half a curlywurly and a packet of love hearts.

Deal PM your address so i can send them on and i know where to pick up the body.
Oh and if you can PM me right before you die as well to let me know you need pickup that would be good too....

psychward

can someone seriously make money out of this ? is there a market rate for selling your body after you pass away?

minidazzler

Free, I'm a fan of science, let them use my body as they wish when I'm not.

Oh_Noes

What if a necrophiliac offered you the ten grand to have use of your body after you die?

flutterflye

Yeah, I'd do it for free too.
It would have to be okay with my family though.

Edit: Referring to original question, not the corpse sex one!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Did it mention in the documentary what the current going rate for a body is?

jill_valentine

psychward wrote: »

can someone seriously make money out of this ? is there a market rate for selling your body after you pass away?

Depending on what kills you and the condition it's in, the tissues and organs of your body can be sold an awful lot of money once you're stripped for parts. There's some debate over figures, and it increases all the time as they figure out how to recover more from you, but the last figure I heard was around $80,000.

Badgermonkey

George Hook is doing it - seriously.

I read somewhere we trade stiffs with medical schools in Scandinavia.

Chuck Stone

Only if they did strange science with it like sending my cadaver on a theme park roller coaster tour of the USA.

Or dropping it from 10,000 feet into a music festival audience and recording people's reactions.

Jesus that sounds like a right laugh.

HLecter

Deal - hope they can get to my corpse before my instruction for cremation is carried out.


or before i activate self destruct mode.

Zebra3

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Did it mention in the documentary what the current going rate for a body is?

Nope.

I stated what I saw and what my price would be, that is all.

psychward

jill_valentine wrote: »

Depending on what kills you and the condition it's in, the tissues and organs of your body can be sold an awful lot of money once you're stripped for parts. There's some debate over figures, and it increases all the time as they figure out how to recover more from you, but the last figure I heard was around $80,000.

they probably shouldnt trust me with the 80k up front if they want a body with a functioning liver

starbelgrade

You don't get paid in Ireland for donating your body to science - it's a voluntary thing.

Also, you can't die of any illnesses. The body has to be in fairly good shape, so your death most likely has to be from the likes of an accident such as a car crash.

joshrogan

I'd accept any amount of money or just give it to them for free.

noxqs

Make organ donation compulsory.

Give everyone a free drivers license in the mail and remove drink driving laws. Tax incentives for driving a motorbike.

Free organs for everyone!

chickenbutt

jill_valentine wrote: »

Ah, the Knoxville body farm.

Ten grand sounds about right. Sooner that than find out I'd been sold for parts without my knowledge, and had my bones swapped out for pipes.

I went to UTK and my friend lived in an apartment near enough to the body farm, said every night like clockwork there'd be pizzas delivered there :pac: And one lucky professor of mine had a chance to visit it, and had to wear those big rubber overalls that go up to your chest when walking around and that the smell was absolutely horrific (as you can imagine).

I would totally donate my body.

An interesting read on what happens to the body after you die is Stiff by Mary Roach. I believe she visits the body farm in one of the chapters.

zenno

flutterflye wrote: »

Yeah, I'd do it for free too.
It would have to be okay with my family though.

Edit: Referring to original question, not the corpse sex one!

money talks bullsh1t walks, sign me up now. I could do with a few quid and they can have this shell when i'm dead. sounds a good deal to me. where do i sign up.

sure here in Ireland they are going to take your body parts when you die anyway whether you like it or not so any money my way before this is a bonus.

flutterflye

zenno wrote: »

money talks bullsh1t walks, sign me up now. I could do with a few quid and they can have this shell when i'm dead. sounds a good deal to me. where do i sign up.

Why are you quoting me there?
Is what I said bullsh1t or something??

Mr Simpson

starbelgrade wrote: »

You don't get paid in Ireland for donating your body to science - it's a voluntary thing.

Also, you can't die of any illnesses. The body has to be in fairly good shape, so your death most likely has to be from the likes of an accident such as a car crash.

You can die from anything, once its not on the list of infectious diseases. My mam died in August from multi-organ failure and donated her body to UCD medical school.

zenno

flutterflye wrote: »

Why are you quoting me there?
Is what I said bullsh1t or something??

not at all. I was just saying that i would rather money upfront before a donation of my body. sorry if it sounded out of sync

seanybiker

Well if opt out of organ donation ever comes in ill be opting out so a school can go get fooked if they think they are getting my body.

Mr Trade In

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Only if they did strange science with it like sending my cadaver on a theme park roller coaster tour of the USA.

Or dropping it from 10,000 feet into a music festival audience and recording people's reactions.

Jesus that sounds like a right laugh.

If I was rich I would sponsor both of these,sound like fun to watch.

zenno

seanybiker wrote: »

Well if opt out of organ donation ever comes in ill be opting out so a school can go get fooked if they think they are getting my body.

sure what good will you're body be when you are gone/dead. look at the junk that happened a few years ago with hospitals taking body parts when they were not supposed to. if there was some money involved towards giving a body to science then that would be ok in my book as it will help you out while you are alive.

now if a person has some religious beliefs then that's different of course but if you sign up for giving your body to science i think it should benefit the person doing so in receiving some money.

seanybiker

zenno wrote: »

sure what good will you're body be when you are gone/dead. look at the junk that happened a few years ago with hospitals taking body parts when they were not supposed to. if there was some money involved towards giving a body to science then that would be ok in my book as it will help you out while you are alive.

now if a person has some religious beliefs then that's different of course but if you sign up for giving your body to science i think it should benefit the person doing so in receiving some money.

Obviously it would be no good to me, same as it would be no good to a religious person when they are dead. wherever Im going Im going as I am when i die.

zenno

seanybiker wrote: »

wherever Im going Im going as I am when i die.

The only thing though in this country when you die is how is anyone going to know if your innards were not dissected and body parts sent off elsewhere as after a body dies and goes to postmortem they sow it up and dress it nicely before burial. the vampires will still take your body parts before buriel or cremation behind your back.

Pricey stuff alright from american standards, even though this is the price of the operation as well but the price of healthy body parts is quite expensive either way...

In 2007, the average cost for a single-lung transplant was nearly $400,000, according to the online resource Transplant Living. The average cost for a double-lung transplant, in which both of the patient's original lungs are replaced with donor lungs, was about $550,000. For a heart-lung transplant, involving the transplant of both a donor heart and a single lung, the average cost was about $875,000.

endacl

zenno wrote: »

seanybiker wrote: »

wherever Im going Im going as I am when i die.

The only thing though in this country when you die is how is anyone going to know if your innards were not dissected and body parts sent off elsewhere as after a body dies and goes to postmortem they sow it up and dress it nicely before burial. the vampires will still take your body parts before buriel or cremation behind your back.

Wouldn't it be a bit awkward taking your body parts behind your back? The spine would get in the way surely..?

zenno

I will have to look into the american market on this for the price of a cadaver in reasonable condition lol. my arms might not be worth anything because of the tattoos and the state of my liver but i'm sure there is other reasonably worthwhile parts they can use, I think.

the things i do when i'm smashed. :pac:

FouxDaFaFa

I'd do it for free, they do a lot of good teaching medical students and developing forensic techniques. I want to donate organs though so I don't know if they'd want me.

zenno

there would be nothing worse than the medical examiner doing the test and say, yes he is dead but little do they realize hours before your death some person blows zombie powder (tetrodotoxin) paralyzing the victim and causing him to appear dead then the family would bury the person alive thinking the person was dead. this has happened before but before the person was buried there was a hurried autopsy on the living person, but they thought that person was dead. all compliments of the pufferfish and friends.

if it can happen to him, it can happen to you.

Rachiee

I wouldnt do this actually i'd be too worried about my family having nothing to bury which i know would be important to them happily donate organs though to whoever wants/needs them, though id say they're all a bit gammy :rolleyes:

Kasabian

I'll be needing my body for when I comeback.

biko

Well I woke up in a hotel once missing a kidney.
True story.

Kasabian

biko wrote: »

Well I woke up in a hotel once missing a kidney.
True story.

I know.

starbelgrade

mmcn90 wrote: »

You can die from anything, once its not on the list of infectious diseases. My mam died in August from multi-organ failure and donated her body to UCD medical school.

I stand corrected.

marcsignal

I carry a multi organ donor card. If it helps someone live after I'm gone, that alone would be payment/satisfaction enough for me.

I've never seen a hearse with a tow bar.

zenno

biko wrote: »

Well I woke up in a hotel once missing a kidney.
True story.

are you serious or is that just a joke ?.

I have heard of this happening people before but i found it a bit hard to believe.

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

You don't get paid in Ireland for donating your body to science - it's a voluntary thing.

Also, you can't die of any illnesses. The body has to be in fairly good shape, so your death most likely has to be from the likes of an accident such as a car crash.

You don't get paid, but it's only certain illnesses you can't have. Generally those that present an infection risk (e.g. HIV, CJD, MRSA etc etc) are not accepted.

If extreme trauma is experienced at the time of death, a body won't be accepted, neither will one that is badly decomposed or has had an autopsy performed.

Gee Bag

Badgermonkey wrote: »

George Hook is doing it - seriously.

The mental image of George Hook naked on a slab brings to mind Jabba the Hut.

ringadingding

zenno wrote: »

are you serious or is that just a joke ?.

I have heard of this happening people before but i found it a bit hard to believe.

Happened to my uncles mate .
Thailand.

Oh and to my neighbours mate.
Mexico.

Oh and to every taxi drivers mate.