He added that body and organ donations promote advancements in medicine and benefit a growing number of critically ill patients who need organ transplants.
Zhan Haibing is a postgraduate student in the School of Public Health at Lanzhou University. He refers to cadavers as "silent teachers."
"'Silent teachers' have played an irreplaceable role in medical education and research. They can give medical students a real understanding of human bodies," Zhan said.
China's body donation program started in the early 1980s.
Yuan attributed the traditional belief, lack of knowledge on donation procedures, and failure to obtain consent from families of the potential donors as three main reasons that have long hampered donations.
Chinese have traditionally held that a person's body should remain intact because they believe there is an afterlife, and they see a traditional burial as an obligation of filial piety toward their elders.
Undoubtedly, Geng's decision to donate her body was strongly opposed by her parents.
In China, the voluntary body donation registry needs consent from an executor who must be a direct relative of the donor, such as the parents, adult children or siblings.
She convinced her parents to support her at last. Her brother even signed as her executor.
As the laws and the overall environment for donation continue to improve, and people's attitudes on funeral customs are gradually changing, body donations have become more acceptable.
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