Other USeful Information 3/31/2022

A collection of any miscellaneous info and reference that might be handy to know:

UCI Medical School Willing Bodies Program

This is a program to easily deal with your body after you are through with it. Personally, I don't particularly care what happens to my body after I am done with it but it is important to me that it is not a burden to my friends and family (pretty much one in the same!!) and if something useful comes of it, all the better.

The UCI program allows for a number of possible uses -there will be no information as to what that turns out to be but the helpful/useful possibilities are there and more to the point, when it is time, all anyone has to do is call the collection number and the program will collect the body within an hour or two, take care of EVERYTHING else and deliver a death certificate.

I have signed up for this program myself with the hope that when I go flying off into the cosmic dance/beach party that all that is left to do here is have a big party on the beach and figure out who now gets to carry on First Fridays and go hang out with everyone in the neighborhood!

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https://medschool.uci.edu/community/willed-body-program

English Donor Application Form (PDF)

send all pages to willedbody@hs.uci.edu

24-HOUR DEATH NOTIFICATION PHONE NUMBER: 949-824-6061

Outside of 200mile radius of UCI, transportation may not happen unless doners estate or family/friends pay for transportation so still need alternate wishes set up for just in case.

The University of California recognizes the value and importance of anatomical donations and is committed to ensuring that they are treated with the utmost care and respect. Most people qualify to be a whole body donor for medical education and research.

Donors must be a resident of Southern California, over the age of 18, with capacity to understand and sign the required consent forms. Contagious diseases, like HIV, HBV, and HCV, are exclusionary conditions for donation. Serious traumatic injury to the body and extreme obesity may disqualify someone to be a donor.

The body may be used for several years, but after the use has ended, we will cremate the body and scatter the ashes at sea. While there is no cost to the family for cremation and final disposition, cremated remains cannot be returned back to the family upon the conclusion of use.

What to do when death occurs?

Notify us on our 24 hour hotline (949-824-6061) within 48 hours of passing
We will confirm eligibility and arrange for transportation at that time
We will do our best to accommodate any wishes of the family to allow for viewing at the residence or other place of death prior to transportation to our campus
We will work with the county of death’s health care official to prepare and file the death certificate, providing the donor’s agent with information as to how to obtain certified copies

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Compostable Bags for Food Waste

Unfortunately, it looks like there are no bags that we can put in the organic waste that are acceptable.

All the bags you can buy in California that say "Compostable" will only decompose under the right oxygen, temperature, and bio-organism conditions, so that takes a special facility which does not generally exist.

There are Biodegradable bags but due to the terms of the legal definitions of them in California, it appears that none of the bags that are meant to degrade in normal composting conditions are legal to sell in California.

So it appears that there is no practical way of collecting food waste unless you are just going to dump the scraps directly into your bin and liver with the mess/smell, etc...