It takes more than textbooks to achieve medical milestones.

The National Body Donor Program is a 501 (c)(3) tax exempt organization, incorporated in the state of Missouri. The program has been supplying cadavers to accredited medical schools around the country since 2001. It's because of the schools we work with that we are able to offer a no cost cremation option to families who may be struggling financially. The family will get a free cremation with body donation.

If you would like to donate your body, the body of your next of kin, or someone else...

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Donation Form - Submitted Electronically - I understand there may be a transportation fee if the place of death is more than 100 miles from St. Louis, MO

Donation Form

I do hereby make this anatomical gift of body of the person named below upon death to the National Body Donor Program, St. Louis, Missouri, its agents/brokers, for educational, scientific, or such related uses as the authorized personnel of the National Body Donor Program shall in their sole discretion deem proper. I hereby direct that the body of the person named below, un-embalmed and un-autopsied, be delivered to said National Body Donor Program, St. Louis, Missouri, as soon after death as possible. I further authorize National Body Donor Program, it’s agents and/or employees, if, in the sole discretion of NBDP, embalming, or profuseing of the body of the person named below is necessary, that they are authorized to do so. Furthermore, upon completion of any and all studies, they may also, if in their sole discretion deemed necessary, cremate any unused tissue, or the body after scientific and educational work has been done. I further understand that National Body Donor Program Inc. retains the right of refusal for this anatomical donation as deemed necessary by the board of directors of the National Body Donor Program Inc.

Return of ashes

I understand that it could take up to 48 months after the body is placed with a school before ashes are returned.

Name of person to be donated

First Name

Last Name

Expected Place of Death, City/State or Zip Code

My Digital Signature

I understand this is my digital signature

First Name

Last Name

Disposition of the ashes

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Your Relationship to Donor

Your Address

Street Address

City

State

Zip

Phone

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Email Address

Witness Signature

First Name

Last Name

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