in which context is all

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Me: Did you hear about Steve Jobs?

Patty: Hasn't his health been fucked up for a while?

Me: [blah, blah, blah...] ... liver transplant.

Patty: Did you know most people who want to be organ donors can't because the organs have to be gotten so quickly?

Me: You know stuff about morbid stuff. Well hey, if they fail at being organ donors, they can donate their bodies to the Ohio State Buckeyes¹.

Patty: You could donate your body to Glee.

Me: A thought I'm sure people have often, in an entirely different context.


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¹ As at least one of her relatives has.

Comments

[arianhwyvar.livejournal.com]

My grandfather donated his body to one of the local medical schools; it was the wrong time of year for the standard thing where each body goes to a first year medical student to study, so he went to a 4th year student instead. The medical school has a memorial service for the families etc of the donors, where they can meet the students and the students can basically say thank you. My father and sister attended and had only good things to say about it. It seems there was a very palpable sense of appreciation, a sort of 'this person was so cool they kept on teaching us things even after they had died.'