[header] How to donate your body to science [title] Understand what happens when you donate your body to science. [step] Before you die, you will have chosen a facility or program and filled out the necessary paperwork. After you die, someone will contact the facility or program which will usually collect your body. 
Once they have your body, several things could be done with it. [substeps] Donated bodies are used for testing new medical tools and equipment, testing car safety products, studying stages of advanced decay, studied for anatomy purposes, and testing new surgeries, among other things.