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Old 10-20-2010, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by David Jones View Post
You die. They come get your body. (he was in Baldwin County, about 250 miles from UAB) They poke and prod and turn you inside out for a while then cremate you and send you via the mail back to your family after a year or so. No charge and thank you very much. So Dad was cremated.
You may see it as cheap, but I see such a donation as noble. There's usually a sign in Latin over the dissection room at medical schools. It reads ""mortui vivos docebunt."

The translation is "The dead will teach the living."

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