A Timeless Gift...

Thank you for considering the gift of your remains to the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine for educational and scientific purposes. Your gift is truly meaningful and an act of unselfish concern for all who succeed you in life. Your selfless gesture will have an impact which goes far beyond the initial contribution to the School of Medicine. The immediate benefits are obvious. Students and faculty of the School of Medicine will be able to observe and document, firsthand, the detailed structure of the human form. Students will realize immediately the intricacies and variations in that form. Even more significantly, your contribution will permit future physicians as well as practicing physicians to gain a level of knowledge and understanding which may prolong or make more pleasant someone's life.

Yours is a gift which will abide forever as nurses, physicians and scientists who learn from you train others in the future. In so many ways, you will contribute significantly to medical education and research and serve humankind even in death. Medical and scientific personnel who train here will carry their knowledge to all parts of the world; your altruism will play a significant role in their ability to do this. Follow the links to the left to learn more.

Autopsies are not performed under the aegis of The Anatomical Gift Program. The Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Pathology offers a Regional Postmortem Examination Service that makes autopsies of persons who die of apparently natural causes outside of a hospital or in a hospital emergency room available to family members. For more information, you may view a brochure (PDF file) or speak with a representative by calling (937) 775-2625, Monday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., or (937) 775-2304 on evenings and weekends.

For more information about the Anatomical Gift Program, please contact:
Frank Nagy, Ph.D., Director
Anatomical Gift Program Office
108 White Hall
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
3640 Col. Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435

Phone: (937) 775-3066
Fax: (937) 775-3417
e-mail: frank.nagy@wright.edu