Brain Donation is Needed to Study Autism. I registered to be an organ donor, assuming that if anyone would have a need for it, they should go for it. But somehow this feels different. My body going into the ground without my pancreas or spleen seems fine. But without my brain in my head? That creeps me out. It's irrational, I know. Still, I am considering it, because as someone who has some combo of OCD/Aspie/Anxiety symptoms with a high IQ, there might be useful things to look at. In reality, researchers would probably look at something else completely unremarkable about me and I would just look wrong under the ground.
I think you don't tell people that for the wake. It's one thing to think "They sent his spinal column and his kidneys up to Mary Hitchcock for a study." Quite another to look at the face and go "They cut his brain out of that. They filled it up with styrofoam or something for the viewing."
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Will the jar have wires coming out of it?
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