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INSTRUCTIONS
FOR BODY DONATION
Options
for Donating Your Body
There
are two ways your donated body can be brought to the University
of Miami School of Medicine:
1)
Select a funeral director who will take care of all
necessary details.
The funeral director will obtain the vital statistics information,
prepare the body and deliver it to us. Forms to assist the
funeral director can be mailed to you. See contact instructions
below to obtain the forms.
2)
We will arrange for delivery of the body to the medical school.
For residents of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, the medical school can be notified at the time of death and we will arrange for the delivery of the body at the expense of the family or the estate. We will do this as a courtesy to alleviate your family from having to make these decisions at a most difficult time.
State
regulations require that the cost of preparation and /or transportation
to the medical school be borne by the family or estate. The
costs should be reasonable. If there is any question about
expenses, you might find it advisable to compare the two options
described in the preceding paragraph.
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Instructions
to Persons Interested in Donating Their Bodies
1)
The Vital Statistics Form
should be completed.
2)
Two copies of the Dedication
Form should be filled out and signed in the presence
of two witnesses who also must sign the form. Since the completed
Dedication forms have legal status, a formal will is not required.
3)
Please complete the Cremated Remains Form.
4)
The Vital Statistics Form, one copy of the Dedication Form
and the Cremated Remains Form should be sent to:
Anatomical Board of the State of Florida
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy (R-124)
P.O. Box 016960
Miami, Florida 33101-6960
5)
The second copy of the Dedication Form should be retained and
placed in your personal files.
6)
Copies of the memo addressed to "Those Responsible for
Final Arrangements" should be distributed to a relative
and/or close friend. In this way, they will know of your wish
and will be in a better position to carry it out promptly.
7)
If you are using a funeral director, you should make arrangements
at this time, as it will save your relatives the necessity
of making arrangements after your death. The Funeral director
should be informed of your plans to donate your body for medical
education and be instructed as to his responsibilities. He
should be given the memo titled "Instructions to Funeral
Director".
8)
The Anatomical Board is not able to remove and store tissues
for eye banks, bone banks or other agencies which collect
tissues for transplantation to living persons. If you are
interested in such procedures, you should discuss the possibilities
with your physician. The Board, however, will accept bodies
from which only eyes have been removed.
9)
If you wish further information about your donation or the
completion of these forms, please write
or telephone the Miami Branch of the Anatomical Board.
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Instructions
for Final Arrangements
1)
As soon as possible after death, the Anatomical Board should
be notified at the following:
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Telephone:305-243-6691
2)
If a funeral home is to be used, they should be requested
to embalm the body by means of 'arterial injection only'.
3)
The funeral director should be told to contact the Anatomical
Board as soon as practical to arrange delivery to the school,
telephone 305-243-6691.
4)
The cost of the embalming and transportation to the Medical
School will be borne by the family or estate of the deceased.
5)
If cremation is not desired, the Anatomical Board should be
notified at the time of transportation. After study, the body
can be turned over to a funeral home for such burial as the
family may specify. Burial by a funeral home will be at the
expense of the family.
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