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Article: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE THE ULTIMATE GIFT TO MEDICAL SCIENCE, CADAVERS FIND THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON'S WILLED BODY PROGRAM.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 13, 2000
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Shirley Ahrens' parting memory of her mother was watching the hearse leave their Stanwood home and recede into the distance.
``Once that car goes down the driveway and the taillights are gone, that's it,'' Ahrens says. ``You have no more to do with it.''
Thus began her mother's journey into the unknown, behind the closed doors of the University of Washington anatomy lab. Her mother, Bertha Palmer, 80 when she died, had willed her body to medical science.
Left behind, Ahrens could only wonder how Mom would fare in the hands of strangers.
``There are days when I would just sit and think, `Gee, I wonder what they are doing on Mom today. ...