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A true geek would do this- "You can get $150 to $600 in advance by willing your body to a University medical school. They have you sign a lot of papers and put a tattoo on your foot." Others would continue the trend and do this- "You can get the tattoo removed and sell your body to the folks across the street.
Okay Nate, time to (yet again) pick apart your utter gullibility and stupidity.
1) considering the amount of people who die far from home, in unidentifiable condition, or in a state where the body is undissectable (plane crash, fire, etc), doesn't this seem fairly far-fetched? I dunno what college you intend to go to, but most of the ones I've been affiliated with don't have hundreds of dollars to give to hippies against the off chance that they'll die soon and nearby.
2) tattoo removal in 2002 is still less than perfect- a scar or dark patch often remains. in the 70's, tattoo removal was not done with lasers or chemicals but with knives or skin grafts, which, aside from leaving your foot a mess, would cost well over the supposed sum you got from the med school.
3) Abbie Hoffman was a trickster. believe less than half of anything he says as "truth". If abbie had said, "my friend bill wirthling of kenosha wisconsin has a tattoo on his foot from selling his body to science" and included a pic, maybe I'd believe it. "steal this book" was probably written for wannabes- real revolutionaries and scam artists don't need a mass market paperback to tell them how to fuck the man.
4) ask a doctor how many cadavers he saw in med school. now ask him how many had tats from the med school on their feet. None? gee, what a surprise.
5)medical schools don't pay for bodies- they get them from charity hospitals, unclaimed indigents, and family members who donate the bodies of relatives. I donated my dead father, who donated his dead father.
6) you would be less annoying if you thought for at least ten minutes before you posted.
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