If I am stable my neuro has me have one every two years.

AZJanie, how does your family view you donating your body to science? My sister has arranged that and some of my family is freaking out. She is having her body used as a cadaver for med students. They will be awfully busy with hers with as many medical problems as she has had.

I thought donating your body to science was really gross but I changed my mind when I got to thinking about funeral costs ($10,000.00 plus gravesite) and our families so far away I changed my mind.

Our best friends asked if we would sign a paper as witnesses so they could pre-arrange to have their bodies donated to science (after death).

I mentioned it to another friend and she said that's what they did with her Dad when he passed. Her Dad died at home and they just made a phone call, a rep came to get the body and they received 7 death certificates.

Two weeks later a limo pulled up out in front of their home. Two well dressed men came with a box containing cremains along with a paper which read what the findings were (optional if you don't want to know).

The men asked if they could say a prayer for him and left. No charge for any of this. It is really dignified and nice and so much easier emotionally as there is no funeral viewing etc which I don't want. It's just like they are going on vacation but not coming back.

Thanks for your explanation Janie. My Mom is really flipping out over no funeral and showing. She knows we can have a memorial service and on the back of my parents headsone is written all their childrens names. So we can actually put flowers on my parents grave for my sister. But finances was the main reason my sis decided to do this.

I figure one a year as long as insurance is paying for it I want to know what's going on in there. What with having really good insurance now while I'm working it's not an issue. I'm wondering though, when you go on medi (care/caid) how often do the feds let you get one?