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  2. Body donation - Wikipedia

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    Body donation. Body donation, anatomical donation, or body bequest is the donation of a whole body after death for research and education. There is usually no cost to donate a body to science; donation programs will often provide a stipend and/or cover the cost of cremation or burial once a donated cadaver has served its purpose and is returned ...

  3. Tissue bank - Wikipedia

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    The Organ Donation Act regulates organ donation in the Netherlands during life and after death. The Burial and Cremation Act regulates whole body donation. This document states that body donation to science is a third party option of body disposal. Organ donors are actively recruited by the Dutch government whereas body donors are not.

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    Organ donation. Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin ...

  5. Religious views on organ donation - Wikipedia

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    Life after death is a strong belief of Hinduism and is an ongoing process of rebirth. It is a perpetual circle of birth and rebirth of the soul, so the physical body is insignificant. The effects of this view on the concept of organ donation and transplantation in Hinduism are various. [33]

  6. Death Valley heat melts skin off a man's feet after he lost ...

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    "The skin was melted off his foot," said Death Valley National Park Service Ranger Gia Ponce. "The ground can be much hotter — 170, 180 [degrees]. Sometimes up into the 200 range."

  7. Indian rituals after death - Wikipedia

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    Pind Sammelan, also called Spindi or terahvin in North India, [11] [12] [13] is a ritual performed in Hinduism on the 13th day of death of somebody. This ritual is performed to place the departed soul with their ancestors and deities. It is believed that before the ritual, the departed soul is a preta (evil spirit), and after performing this ...

  8. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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    Organ donation after medical assistance in dying is the donation of organs after death that is medically assisted (MAiD). Both are expressions of human autonomy. [1] The governments of the countries where MAiD is permitted have introduced detailed regulations for this procedure. Combining these procedures requires a combination of the separate ...

  9. What to know when inheriting an annuity - AOL

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    As an heir, you’d receive either the current value (aka the standard death benefit) or the guaranteed increase (the standard + 10 years of, say, 3 percent annual growth). You’d get whichever ...