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It's great that she donated her body to science instead of letting it go to waste rotting in the ground. It's also great that they didn't try to patent her gen
by driverdan 15y ago
It's great that she donated her body to science instead of letting it go to waste rotting in the ground.
It's also great that they didn't try to patent her genetics and that they're being shared with other researchers. This is how it's supposed to be done.
- omarchowdhury 15y agoIt is a nice thing to do. But even if she didn't, nature would have found some use for the components in her body.
- cynest 15y agoThe problem with this is that the benefit to humanity from analyzing the effects of extreme old age on the human body and investigating the questions of extreme old-age heritability that super-centenarians raise is much greater than the benefit from the decomposition of an old lady's biomass.
- goodweeds 15y ago* It's great that she donated her body to science instead of letting it go to waste rotting in the ground.* If her body were decomposing in the ground, that wouldn't be "going to waste". She would be providing nutrients back to the soil that made her life possible.