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Havana, Cuba. - A simple funeral in Europe can cost two thousand 500 Euros on average, and many solve that financial problem donating their body so that faculties of Medicine and other sanitary disciplines carry out their anatomical studies.

But all the corpses are not useful that way; besides the donor's consent, the body must be in acceptable conditions.

For example in Spain bodies are not accepted that have suffered infectious diseases like AIDS, typhus, hepatitis or cholera, so that students do not expose themselves to those risks.

.In addition, the Spanish universities do not accept them either if they are involved in judicial processes, if they have been put under autopsy or transplants of organs or if they have had an extreme obesity or thinning.

Anonymous heroes of science

It is important to be able of distinguishing between donating the body to science and to donate organs for transplant. Both actions are not compatible, because when a transplant is carried out, some arteries and veins are removed, which forbides the conservation of the corpse for their later study.

Therefore, if a person expresses his/her consent to participate in both cases, in Spain the use of organs is prioritized; but if these are not useful for that purpose, then the whole body is given for its scientific use.

Normally, after some years, the remains that were used for research and study are incinerated or buried without that meaning some cost for the relatives.

In that way it finishes in Spain the earthly route of anonymous heroes who even dead help to generate life.