Additional Resources

Donor Identification Cards

Wallet size Donor Identification Cards are now available. If you are already signed up with the Anatomy Bequest Program and would like a card, please call us at: 612-625-1111 during normal business hours or email us at bequest@umn.edu

Anatomy Memorial Service

For information on the November, 2012 Anatomy Memorial Service, clink here: Anatomy Memorial Service

Program Articles

Minnesota Daily article

• Program ceremony honors donors (pdf)
• U students name star for body donors (pdf)

Minnesota Medical Foundation Medical Bulletin

• Anatomy lessons: Students discover patient care at the heart of the anatomy lab

Minnesota Public Radio

• Body donors remembered with poetry, music and gratitude

Minneapolis / St. Paul Magazine article

• Making the Best of a Bad Situation

National Public Radio series on whole body donation

• NPR did a series on whole body donation at the University of Maryland in Baltimore which has received many very positive comments 

 Currents Magazine interviewed the Director of the Program about our memorial service

• Currents Magazine March 2012

Interesting Article

The Last Gift (pdf)
by Daniel Shapiro
(c) 2009 Journal of the American Medical Association

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