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Alie Ward

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Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

I mean, obviously with Stiff, we know what happens to cadavers and donating your body to science, but you also have a great chapter about tissue donation, which my husband has some donor tissue in his knee going strong for like four years.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And for more on your garbage knees, you can see our genicular traumatology episode with Dr. Kevin Stone, who fixes those knees.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

He ended up completing his black belt in jujitsu.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

He never thought he'd get to go back.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And I'm like, dude, you owe that family a letter for sure.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

You've got to send them a letter, especially now that you did this thing you wanted to do.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And ethically, your kin have to sign off on it.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Do you think you're going to be donating your body to science?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

What do you think?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Mary notes in Replaceable You that regardless of a person's wishes or the dot on their driver's license, tissue can't be recovered until the next of kin has answered the eligibility questions.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Is it hard to get accepted though?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

This is true.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Yes.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

But I wonder if your family stands by a computer waiting to see if you got into it, into core like they do with Harvard.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Oh, my God.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

She got in.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

She got into 75 more people.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

75 more people.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

We're going to get so many letters.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Not your Achilles heel.