Couple in own skeleton donation to dungeon
01/Mar/2010
A couple have pledged their skeletons to an Edinburgh dungeon visitor attraction because they do not want to inflict their funerals on their family.Andrew and Janine Leishman have donated their bodies to Edinburgh University's medical College for dissection before Edinburgh Dungeon puts them on display.
The pair both work as nurses at Bo'ness Hospital near Falkirk.
The Leishmans said they also wanted to highlight the shortage of bodies donated to medical science.
Their move follows the dungeon launching a search to recruit skeletons to tie in with its new show about the exploits of Edinburgh's 19th-century serial killers Burke and Hare, who profited by selling the bodies of their victims to anatomist Dr Robert Knox.
Anyone who wants to donate their body for medical research has to put it in writing, have it witnessed and lodge the paperwork with their will.
Source and full story: BBC news
(Tags: anatomy)