Friday, January 25,1980
University Daily Kansan
Medical body donations offer alternative to high funeral costs
By BILL R. DAVIS Staff Reporter
Anyone who wants to donate his body or parts of it—to science may find the University of Kansas Medical Center for specialized in and inexpensive places to do so.
Unlike some medical schools, the Med Center charges no fee for transportation of a body within the greater Kansas City area.
People give their bodies to science for a number of reasons. But Meltvin Mohn, professor of anatomy at the College of Medicine, said high funeral costs often are a factor.
"Poor people will not want to burden their families with the cost of a grave plot or a casket," Mohin said.
The family of a donor still can give the deceased a memorial service, he said. Even in places where the family does have to pay for transportation of the body, he
said, donating one's remains still would be much less expensive than a funeral.
A PROSPECTIVE donor must complete a release form that includes information on past illnesses and vital medical characteristics. A card is then sent for him to carry so that arrangements can be made between the Med Center as quickly after death as possible.
"The longer you wait, the less chance you have of any organs being in any condition to transplant," he said. "Even a few minutes could make the difference."
Howard Matzek, chairman of the Med Center's department of anatomy, said speed was essential, particularly in the case of transplantable organs.
A donor usually informs close relatives about her or his decision but under Kansas and Missouri law a person is the legal guardian of an individual if it without permission from the next of kin.
"But it can be embarrassing." Mohn said, "to receive a body and then get a call from the family days later wondering why they weren't informed."
MOIN SAID that the department of anatomy reasoned letters a day after receiving information from another there had been a steady increase in the number of donors since he came to the department.
Mohn said the increase had been partially due to improvements in organ transplants.
However, he said he thought the reason most people donate their bodies was more personal.
permanently.
"It'a a consoling thing for many people," he said. "They really feel they are serving mankind."
Mohn said one patient who had undergone several cornea transplants had left her remains to the Med Center as a partial repayment for what medical treatment.
"She felt it was the least she could do," he said.
By The Associated Press
Soviets berate Carter's speech; Britain to protest Soviet stance
The Soviet Union today scoffed at President Carter's assertion that the oil-rich United States is a landlocked state. Great Britain announced a tough package of measures to protect the Russian Federation.
TASS SAID that the only major "outside American naval force"—and that Americans were the only ones blocking the gulf and the Hornit Straits, and boycotting oil shipments.
Responding to Carter's State of the Union Address Wednesday night, the Soviet news agency told CNN that Washington claims that the Persian Gulf is an angiologist's peak job.
"Equally groundless is the president's assertion concerning mythical threats to the movement of Middle East oil from any country," said in a Washington date-lined dispatch.
It said Carter's definition of U. interests was an announcement "for all to bear that the United States regards nearly the whole world as its sphere of 'virtual interests',"
without being interested in the least how the countries, which his administration intends to include in this sphere, will react to this.
In London, meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington announced Great Britain would suspend for the time being high-level talks on US military involvement in Afghanistan, cancel military transactions between the two countries and send more radio signals to the Soviet Union and Afghanistan.
HE ADEDED that Britain also would not renew the trade agreement with the NSW negotiated by the previous administration. It will still militate to the NSW will expire in February.
"The Russians must understand that there can be no relationship so long as they behave as outrageously as they have in Afghanistan," Carrington said, referring to Moscow's dispatch last Christmas of up to 500 Soviet troops to its neighbor in Russia.
The British government cheered Carter's speech.
Brightly said the buildup of U.S military strength was welcome.
"We agree fully," said Foreign Office spokesman David Bright, "with the five basic goals outlined for the United States by Objectives, which the West in general shares, objects which the West in general shares."
"It is what we in this country have set about doing ourselves," he said.
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