Dear Margaret,

I would suggest contacting a teaching medical college in the  
Philadelphia area. Surely they would have the paperwork appropriate  
in Pennsylvania for such a donation.

Stephen Lockwood
Senior Museum Registrar
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Margaret Lyman wrote:

> This question is so weird I should almost save it for a Friday...  
> Years ago our late museum director made a verbal agreement with a  
> woman who wants to donate her spine to the museum.  Said woman is  
> now updating her will and was wondering if we hade yet devised an  
> appropriate form for this donation, or phraseology she should  
> include in her will.  I assume that, as with organ donation, the  
> most important step is to let your family and doctors know your  
> wishes.  Beyond that I get a little fuzzy.  I can't really fall  
> back on what we did in the past, because there is no precedent - 
> most of our specimens were collected in the 1800s or early 1900s,  
> predating our current ethical and legal concerns.  Specimens  
> collected more recently have either been donated to doctors who  
> then donate to us, or belong to a still living donor.  We do want  
> her spine -does anyone have suggestions or forms I could look at?
>
>
>
> Margaret Lyman, Curator
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