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Both my mum and dad donated their bodies to medical research, meaning their remains went to the local med school's anatomy department for student learning dissection. It's where I'm headed some day too.
There seems to be no equivalent for deceased pets, which are just as important re veterinarian
learning. I would gladly have seen my last beloved cat after ending his fantastic life, being of some use to a trainee vet.
Perhaps such a service already exists, and it's not widely known?
The truth ... ?
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"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH !" [8th of 7, Jun 09 2012]
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If this doesn't exist, it should; although, for
larger animals, it's trivially easy to obtain
pigs, sheep, rabbits etc. for dissection. |
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// It's where I'm headed some day // |
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Some day very soon … please … |
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Veterinary hospitals run by vet schools frequently use
deceased pets (with owner permission) as educational
cadavers before creamation. In addition, dogs, cats, and
other domestic animals are still used for experimental
purposes in this and other countries, leaving no shortage of
specimens. A charitable idea, but unnecessary. |
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I think this is a wonderful idea. I'd like to donate
[8th]. |
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Our rare pet had to be put down (many years ago), and the vet coyly asked if we wanted the dead body back afterwards, we guessed his intention and so our ex-pet was indeed used as a dissection specimen with our permission. So, yes, baked I would say. |
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"I'd like to donate [8th]." Unknown origin :-) |
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[poc], your pet wasn't 'donated to science' unless you gave
consent for that to happen, using very clear and specific
terms of that nature. The vet was simply establishing
disposal protocol; it's a touchy subject when somebody's
beloved pet has just died, so vets handle it carefully, thus
the 'coyness'. |
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According to my Dad, dissection or experimentation upon a
deceased pet that is
performed without the owner's express informed consent is
very illegal in the US, and can result in permanent
revocation of a
veterinarian's license to practice. He commented that laws
may vary in some states, but he's never heard of a state
where it is legal without informed consent. |
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If the owners do not claim the animal's remains to dispose
of them as they see fit, the veterinary practice is required
by law (in the US) to cremate the remains (excepting those
practices which have legally established arrangements to
provide cadavers for study). If the owners wish to have the
pet's ashes as a keepsake, the remains are disposed of via
'private cremation', wherein only that cadaver is placed
into the crematory to ensure that the ashes returned to
the owner
are those of only that animal*. Otherwise, the remains of
several animals are cremated together in a 'general
cremation', a much more efficient method, and the
veterinary practice will have made arrangements to
dispose of those ashes (typically they are placed in a
landfill, sometimes they are sold to be processed into
fertilizer used by tree farms). |
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But, yes, to use the unfortunately unavoidable pun, this
idea is fully baked. |
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* At my Dad's practices, we pick out the teeth (which
survive the 2600F burn, but partially melt and turn green)
before grinding the ashes into powder and sealing them in
a plastic bag, which we then put into a decorative wooden
box with hand-carved embellishments. Not every
veterinary practice goes to such lengths, but everyone tries
to handle it respectfully. |
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I'm happy to learn that this is baked, [marked-for-deletion] I'd take it down right away, but the annotations are very informative (and funny). |
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why just an 8th? oh I see. |
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//I'd like to donate [8th]// - I've often wondered what's inside [8th] .... a giant hairball? a tin of Kit-e-Kat? a mouse with a knot in its tail? a jar of effervescent Marmite.... the list goes on. |
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// I've often wondered what's inside [8th] // |
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