"It’s estimated that each year, at least 20,000 people donate their whole body, after death, to medical facilities throughout the country to be used in medical research projects, anatomy lessons and surgical practice. After using your body, these facilities will then provide free cremation... and will either bury or scatter your ashes in a local cemetery or return them to your family, usually within a year or two."
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Jim T. Miller in A Cheap Death: How to Donate Your Body to Science, Huffington Post (02 October 2017)
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