Now this procedure is taken care of by professional morticians, who studied their profession for nine or twelve months after high school in an embalming school. They call themselves “demisurgeons.”…
Given the importance of scientific research using cadavers, having such policies that promote respect and professionalism are paramount. Simply put, the human body deserves to be treated with respect, even after death. Though Tatro’s defense is understandable, it does not detract from the fact that she violated the academic policies she once agreed to. In one’s opinion, Tatro’s posts were distasteful. However, if she had not signed the Disclosure Form for the anatomy course, she may have had a better chance of winning this case. Distasteful Facebook posts on their own are not reason for academic sanctions, nor are they exempt from the protection of freedom of…
3) The first major stage in the process of embalming and restoration is draining the blood through the veins and replaced by embalming fluid pumped in through the arteries. “The next step is to have at Mr.Jones with a thing called a trocar. This is a long, hollow needle attached to a tube. It is jabbed in the abdomen, poked around in the entrails and chest cavity; the contents are pumped out and replaced with cavity fluid”. (Mitford page 305 ) Next the formative work is begun and affected tissues are removed. After this is done if…
Pages 7-8: Explain how the body was able to be preserved for such an extended period of time?…
After you have donated your remains to science it becomes the institutes (the one your body now belongs to) decision of what will happened to you. One alternative is that your remains will be sent to a university. However one of the most common misconceptions is that your remains will be sent to a university where medical students will be hacking you to pieces. Medical students who are given the experience of working with “fresh” remains must have a vast amount of respect for their cadavers (at several universities if a student does not respect the remains they can be asked to leave the program). Many universities make their students take a seminar taught by past students and teachers who have had experience working with cadavers. They give the current students an idea of what they will be doing throughout the year and how it affects one psychologically.…
The second sentence, beginning on line seven, shifts its focus to the lumber used to make the grave. This is where Simmerman begins to give the grave a history. He…
The ability to keep someone alive by replacing one of their major organs is an amazing achievement of this century of medicine. Unfortunately, the current supply of transplant organs is much lower than that need or demand for them, which means that many people in the United States die every year for lack of a replacement organ. When a person gets sick because one of his or her organs is failing, an organ is damaged because of a disease or its treatment, or lastly because the organ has been damaged in an accident a doctor needs to assess whether the person is medically eligible for a transplant or not. If the person is eligible the doctor refers the patient in need of an organ to a local transplant center. If the patient turns out to be a transplant candidate a donor organ then must be found. There are two sources of donor organs. The first source is to remove the organs from a recently deceased person, which are called cadaveric organs (Potzgar, 2007). A person becomes a cadaveric organ donor by indicating that they would like to be an organ donor when they die. This decision can be expressed either on a driver’s license or in a health care directive, which in some states are legally binding contracts. The second source is from a living…
Over time there have been many men and women who have received the title “hero.” They likely have been named by their bravery, strength, and willingness to give up their own comfort, if not their own life, to benefit the wellbeing of others. Every hero differs in many ways. Each one of them has his own story of heroism. The tragic hero survives in our literature.…
By playing his guitar Claude helped Michelle to get to a place where she could let go and be happy with herself. Although Claude did not realize it at first, teaching himself to play the guitar in the hospital did not only benefit him. By doing so he helped others in the hospital to relax and for a moment forget about what was going on in their lives to get carried away by the music. In the story, Michelle thanks Claude for playing the guitar and tells him that it helped. In my opinion doing this helped Michelle to become somewhat of a hero. To me a hero is someone that believes in themselves and believes that with a positive attitude can change or influence other people. A hero is also a person that does their best to compliment what other people do around them. For this reason, even though I stated that Michelle was not the hero in the story she portrayed qualities of a hero. Without explaining anything Michelle let Claude know that he was helping her to get over having to stay in a hospital when no one else seemed to care . Playing his guitar was a very important factor which leads to Claude being the hero but Claude also assured Michelle that she should never give up…
Read the first seven paragraphs of “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” carefully. Then write a well-organized essay that explains how Mitford uses features of style and rhetoric to convey her attitude toward her subject.…
From the moment a person has passed away their body is rushed to the morgue. The body is then cleaned off and laid out. A sense of urgency comes to mind when this happens following a simple procedure. The body being so quickly taken away just so their process of embalming can begin seems a little heartless to me. Jessica referred to it as “Preparing for surgery” (Mitford 333). Their goal is to create a beautiful picture (Mitford335). In my eyes this is a case of refurbishing a corpse to normalcy, making the family feel as if their eternal sleep is peaceful. This is a business as stated in the book, “One must wonder at the docility of Americans who each year pays hundreds of millions of dollars for its perpetuation” (Mitford337). We pay all of this money half the time we don’t even know what goes on behind the scene. There basically telling me that I have no right to my family.…
Resomation is an alternative to cremation that helps the funeral industry and cuts down mercury emissions. The new technique of disposing a corpse is still not welcomed into potential clients mind frame do to the lack of information on the left over liquid once resomation is completed. I propose more research to be done on the liquid left behind and that the data collected to be shared with the general public. The research will be conducted within two years and six months with the result being a press release of our findings. I am asking for 1,388,800 dollars to fund this research and two years and six months to complete the project. With our findings clientele will be more aware of resomation and the components of the liquid that remains after completion.…
Early morticians were famously known for embalming the dead, which is accomplished by draining blood from the veins and injecting several gallons of chemical solution into an artery. The solution spreads throughout the body and soaks into all tissues, retarding decay (Funeral source 2). “During the ‘Dark Ages’ in Europe,(...) great advances were being made in medicine and bodies were needed for dissection [to further scientists’ understanding of the human anatomy]. For this sole purpose, embalming was practiced and techniques were perfected.” (Curtis D. Rostad 5). “Although embalming dates back to the ancient Egyptians, in the U.S. it began during the Civil War when it became necessary to preserve the bodies of dead soldiers for the trip home.” (Funeralwise). “Dr. Thomas Holmes received a commission as a captain in the Army Medical Corps and was assigned to Washington, D.C. where he reportedly embalmed over 4000 soldiers and officers. When he realized the commercial potential of embalming, Holmes resigned his commission and began offering embalming to the public for $100.” (Curtis D. Rostad 6). Morticians, or undertakers, stepped in with their embalming fluids and caskets, took over the responsibilities that pertained to dozens of separate careers relating to death and death care, and began selling their package services to the public.…
June 3, 1993, marked a day of tragedy for the Cassani family after their fourteen month-old son, Colby, drowned and later died. In mourning the parents of Colby chose to donate their son’s organs which saved the lives of three other individuals (“Colby Cassani”). From a sorrowful calamity of a lost life sprang a gift to those in need of the functioning organs. However, despite the lifesaving potential the newly deceased could offer, the topic of organ donation seems blissfully overlooked by the general public. Scarcely brought to the public’s attention, many individuals, ignorant of organ donations, are provoked to form speculations and myths about this charitable donation of life. Although the subject of organ donation is often disregarded by people and is deeply synonymous with several fallacies, everyone should become an organ donor due to this gift of life.…
"Bodies…. The Exhibition," at the South Street Seaport featured the preserved remains of 22 humans and many other specimens, including a set of conjoined fetuses, an example of male genitalia and a human brain. I found everything visually appalling, yet at the same time I could not take my eyes off of everything I was taking in. Every single body part looked fake to me. However, that isn't a bad thing. They make things look so amazing. So amazing, in fact, that these body parts simply just don't look natural or even real. People get a much deeper understanding of what's inside their bodies after experiencing this exhibit. They preserve the organs in a way that they look like they were artificially machine made. I was shocked to learn that these organs and body parts were once in a real person's body and actually functioning at one time.…