Our body can be donated to science field after death for the purpose of research, technological development or teaching scientific lessons such as human anatomy to the medical students. However, the majority of the people are not willing to sacrifice their bodies for scientific purposes even after their death.

To donate the body for scientific purposes, the first step is to pre-register the donation with a regional medical college or a medical school or a medical university. After the completion of pre-registration process, the donor will be provided with a packet of registration that consists of all the details about the rules, regulations and the proper steps. These details must be read with utmost care and attention and should be understood properly.

After completing the above mentioned step, the donor will be required to sign in a willingness form mentioning about the desire to give away his/her body. A copy of this form should be included with the will of the donor and other important documents that will be utilized for personal purposes. The donor will not be included in the donation list till the form has been fully filled with all the necessary information and submitted and approved. The willingness of a person to donate his/her body can be changed at any time by sending a notification to the appropriate medical school or the medical university in the form of written application. Proper arrangements must be made by the donor to send the notification to the medical school or university when he/she dies to ensure that the body is taken to the appropriate place in a proper way. After the body reaches the medical organization, it will be refrigerated and preserved in the right way.

It is necessary to enquire about the policies of the medical institution about their procedures on treating the donated body after the teaching process has been completed. A majority of the medical institutions used to cremate the remaining body in a respectful way by spending their own money and give away the ashes to the relatives or friends of the donor. None of the medical institution are entitled to buy the body of a person. Hence, no payment will be made for the pre or postmortem of the donated body.

The United network for Organ sharing can be consulted for additional details about donating the body. It is a group present across the nation that takes care of all the requirements for the organ transplantation in the nation. An after-death donor form is also available that can be filled by the spouse or adult children or parents, guardians or brothers or sisters of the body donor after his/her death.