How to Donate Your Body to Science

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How to Donate Your Body to Science

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Sep 1, 2015

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Donating your whole body to further science and medicine is probably the best thing you could do with your corpse. Which is why the industry that handles those gifts need regulating. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Sep 1, 2015

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