This Revocation of Anatomical Gift Donation form is a revocation of Form MA-P025 that designates the body parts and organs an individual wishes to donate at the time of death. If the will, card or other document of gift, or an executed copy thereof,
has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke
the gift by executing and delivering to the donee a signed statement, making an oral statement in the presence of two persons and communicating the same to the donee,
making a statement during a terminal illness or injury addressed to an attending
physician and communicating the same to the donee, or keeping a signed card or document on his person or in his effects. A document of gift which has not been delivered to the donee may be revoked by the donor in the manner set out above or by destruction, cancellation, or mutilation of the document and all executed copies of the document of gift. An anatomical gift made by a will may also be amended or revoked
in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills, or as set
out above. Specific reference is made to the earlier executed Anatomical Gift Donation.
Boston Massachusetts Revocation of Anatomical Gift Donation
State:
Massachusetts
City:
Boston
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MA-P025B
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No: There is no age limit for donation or to sign up. In 2021, one out of every three people who donated organs was over the age of 50.
Body donation procedure A health care representative from the hospital, medical facility or hospice organization where the death occurs should contact Mayo Clinic's donor program coordinator. The coordinator will review acceptance protocol to determine if the donation can be accepted.
To donate your body to medical science, you need to give consent to an anatomical institute. They will ask you for a handwritten declaration (codicil) stating that you wish your body to be donated to medical science after your death.
Body donors must be free of infectious diseases such as HIV, AIDs, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. Donor's body weight must be less than 250 lbs.
The biggest drawback of donating your body is that your family cannot have a service with the body present. You can have a memorial service without a viewing. In some cases, the funeral home will allow for immediate family to have a closed viewing, much like an identification viewing.
Any competent person over the age of 18 years, can arrange to donate their body for medical education and research. For an official donation kit, please call 1-617-358-2105. Registering to be a donor is a system of forms that can be sent to an inquiring individual by e-mail or postal mail.
Body donors must be free of infectious diseases such as HIV, AIDs, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. Donor's body weight must be less than 250 lbs. If there has been a violent death, suicide or vital organs have been removed for transplant purposes, the body will be not be accepted.
In Massachusetts, by law, an individual may arrange for the donation of her/his body after death by executing the Instrument of Anatomical Gift. This instrument, to be valid, must also be signed by two witnesses. A copy of this instrument should be sent to the school designated on the form.
Though the body still breaks down, a preserved one can last anywhere from 18 months to 10 years. Once the medical school students or researchers are done with it, a memorial service is held, usually once a year.
