The body donation industry is unregulated. There was a whole series of articles about it. They use deliberately misleading language in their contracts so that most people have no idea that their loved one's body may be sold to the military. It's really messed up.
There's a lot of demand for dead bodies. It's a fairly taboo subject but the reality is there's lots of research that is slow or impossible because it's not easy (or cheap) to obtain human bodies to work with.
And sometimes those bodies get blown up in a chair instead lol
Trans community owes those who donated their bodies a lot, they've been used to perfect techniques for gender-affirming surgery (like vaginoplasties), although reading this thread, I am unsure if the donors knew that was the destiny of their body, or had control over that aspect. Still mad props for just letting go like that to help people and let anything be done with what was left behind.
no, you have no idea what gets done with your body after donation. I'm curious how these families found out the research place sold those specific bodies to the military, much less the fates of each specific body (grandma strapped to a chair and blown up).
What's insane to me that (where I live) I need pay for donating my body. Like wtf. I don't want a burial and that dor thousands of dollars, why the fuck does it cost money to donate my own body.
Having my body used to help perfect a surgery that improves the lives of a currently marginalized community is basically as good of a use as it gets for me, but also the feelings brought about by imagining my eventual corpse sprawled out on a table getting a vagina stitched in has provided further confirmation to me that I am a cis man lmao.
Not that that dissuades me in the slightest. I'm not using the body anymore regardless, so whether it gets modified beyond my normal sensibilities or not doesn't really matter.
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u/theemmyk May 05 '26
The body donation industry is unregulated. There was a whole series of articles about it. They use deliberately misleading language in their contracts so that most people have no idea that their loved one's body may be sold to the military. It's really messed up.