Byline: John Dorschner
Oct. 10--As more than 100 watched, a group of first-year University of Miami medical students came forward in their lab smocks, one by one. Each carried a rose to symbolize one of the 18 people who had given her or his body so that students could learn.
In the background, a student played an old folk tune on an electric keyboard.
"For those who knew these persons, they were treasures," the Rev. Thom Shafer, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables, said in a speech to the students.
'They were mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, and they were precious treasures. . . . They said, 'Use me. Even my death, use me to make a ...