[Goanet] Living Will Provision in India. . .Toronto U Medical School;

[Dan Driscoll]

I have received a copy of 'Burial and Committal Service', for a First Cousin 
of mine who passed away in Toronto a few months ago. He had stipulated in 
his Will that mortal remains could be used for medical and scientific 
purpose.

Toronto U. Medical School did a beautiful committal service for him---along 
with over a hundred others, who were named. There was a lovely Letter of 
Thanks, signed by First Year Med Class; Order of Service; Music ((Intermezzo 
from Cavalliria Rusticana)---everything 'done decently and according to 
order' as St. Paul would have it.

INTERESTING COINCIDENCE: just a few weeks back I asked my consulting 
physician about possibility of one (in Goa) donating mortal remains for 
medical and scientific purpose. Doctor is busy person, so answer was brief: 
"FACILITY IS NOT THERE".

But do not Med Students at the great GMC (Asia's First Medical College) have 
dissection of human cadaver as part of their Syllabus? I suppose I should be 
going directly to GMC about this; but maybe there are those in our posting 
community who can comment.