Cool! So you're going to be "teaching" either some med students or future criminalists and M.E.'s.

I really wanted to be a criminalist, but didnt have a good enough math or science background for it.

My brain is going to UCLA Medical Center for their research, while the rest of me is going to the California State University for their Comparitive Anatomy classes.

When Cal State is done using me for practicums, I am being cremated and my ashes are going to be scattered in my favorite alpine meadow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

All of this is in my Living Trust.

Here is a picture of my final resting place where my ashes will help my favorite meadow grow:

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Now that looks like an awesome place to spend eternity. And so good for the environment. Go green!

Tom, I don't think the wording has to be anything other than your wishes. Just be specific, very specific, about your wishes. Do you want your brain to be donated while your still artificially alive, meaning if you are on life support? Or do you specifically want it done post mortem? Just be specific and it should be fine. A medical dictionary would probably come in handy for you to be even more specific.

When Jim and I had our living wills done we had very specific instructions. We hired a lawyer to write ours up. We told her our wishes, she wrote it up. We had our living will, power of attorney and final will done for $250 total.