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MEDgle - On-Demand Clinical Case Analysis for Patients and Health Professionals - search your symptoms, diagnoses, drugs, procedures Ten uses for your body after you die J. Nathan Bazzel donated his hip bones, which had to be replaced a few years ago, to Mütter Museum As you're charitable in life, you could also be charitable in death by donating your bodyYou can donate your body to a university so a first-year medical student can dissect itA body broker will get your various parts to scientists for research and educationDonate parts to the Mutter Museum, and you could be on display for the world to see (CNN) -- Like many Americans, you probably think you're pretty charitable. Perhaps you donate money to the needy or ill, give away your old clothes, volunteer at your child's school or participate in holiday gift drives in December. But you may be missing something. J. Bazzel, 38, is HIV-positive, and he wants scientists to learn from his remains. "If just one person can take a look at my skull and kidneys, which have suffered from HIV and the drugs used to treat it, and learn something from them -- what a magnificent gift," he said. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.