You just have to be 18 or older - no other requirement, including impending death. In body donation, the dead body is is used for medical research, education and training. Your head, arms and legs could be cut off. Most significantly, no part of the body is ever transplanted into a living human.
Whole-body donation companies typically will allow donors to sign up as organ donors and be body donors, too. But if you want to register as both, make sure to ask, as the rules vary.
In organ donation, organs are transplanted into a LIVING person - that's the key!
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You just have to be 18 or older - no other requirement, including impending death. In body donation, the dead body is is used for medical research, education and training. Your head, arms and legs could be cut off. Most significantly, no part of the body is ever transplanted into a living human.
Whole-body donation companies typically will allow donors to sign up as organ donors and be body donors, too. But if you want to register as both, make sure to ask, as the rules vary.
In organ donation, organs are transplanted into a LIVING person - that's the key!
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