Ask a Mortician: How Do I Donate My Corpse to Science?

In the new installment of Ask A Mortician, our death-obsessed friend Caitlin Doughty explains that you can’t really give your body to science. But you can offer yourself to a medical school. Also, if you want your skull to be a showpiece on someone’s mantle someday, there’s some advice about that. And be sure to follow Caitlin on Twitter!

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