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The Daily Digest: Silent Mentors: The Altruism of Body Donation

Professor Dr Saw Aik, Programme Director of Silent Mentor

09-Aug-19 14:30

The Daily Digest: Silent Mentors: The Altruism of Body Donation

An Arizona man was horrified to discover that his mother’s body which was donated to medical research, ended by being used by the U.S. Military to examine the use of explosives.

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