Name: 你會捐贈大體給科學研究嗎？ (Would you donate your body to science? | BBC Ideas)
Uploaded: 2025-12-14T20:01:30.000Z
Duration: 6 min 43 s

Human bodies have been studied and dissected for thousands of years, sometimes to extreme lengths.

人體研究和解剖已經有數千年的歷史，有時甚至會採取極端的手段。

But have you ever considered donating your body to science?

但你有沒有想過捐贈你的身體給科學？

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If you think about it as the ultimate act of selflessness, giving your body at the end of your life.

如果你把它想成是終極的無私奉獻，在你生命結束時捐出你的身體。

I wish the people just knew the extent to which donated bodies can be used.

我希望大家能知道，捐贈的身體能被用到的程度有多廣。

We'll be lifting the lid on a world few have ever seen.

我們將揭開一個鮮為人知的世界。

Taking you inside a facility where the dead generously support the living, helping them to learn, to discover and even make life saving medical breakthroughs.

帶大家深入一個地方，在這裡，逝者慷慨地幫助生者，協助他們學習、發現，甚至創造能拯救生命的醫療突破。

The Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee is one of several institutions in the UK that receive body donations.

位於英國鄧迪大學的 Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification，是英國眾多接受遺體捐贈的機構之一。

The main concern of people who do sign up for body donation is they want to do something altruistic.

簽署遺體捐贈的人，最主要的考量是他們想做一些利他的事情。

My mum's name's Jutta Christina Christina Langenhan Scrynger.

我媽媽的名字是 Jutta Christina Christina Langenhan Scrynger。

Born in Germany in 1930 and surviving the hardships of a wartime childhood, Jota went on to build a new life in Scotland where she raised her six children single handedly.

Jota 於 1930 年出生於德國，經歷了戰時艱辛的童年，後來在蘇格蘭展開新生活，並獨自撫養了她的六個孩子。

She got a lot of pleasure out of simple things in life.

她從生活中簡單的事物中獲得了許多樂趣。

She was always thinking about other people, even, even up to the end of her life.

她總是為他人著想，即使在她生命的最後一刻也是如此。

But by donating her body, that was a lovely gesture, you know.

但透過捐贈她的身體，這真是一個可愛的舉動，你知道的。

The university described the people who offer their bodies for research as silent teachers.

該大學將那些自願捐贈身體進行研究的人們描述為「沉默的老師」。

所以，她，她已經成為一位沉默的老師。

At Dundee, those who choose to donate their bodies have their wishes carefully recorded and held on file until the time comes.

在鄧迪大學，選擇捐贈身體的人，他們的心願都會被仔細記錄並妥善保管，直到需要的時候。

We have every single receipt for every single body we have received.

我們有收到的每一具屍體的每一張收據。

我們最近收到了第 3,000 具屍體。

This is body number one, received in 1888.

這是第一具身體，在 1888 年收到。

At that time most of these people would have been collected from various Dundee poor houses In Britain, poor houses were home to the destitute, the sick and the elderly with nowhere else to go.

當時，這些人大多是從英國各地的濟貧院收集來的。在英國，濟貧院是無家可歸的窮人、病人和老年人的居所。

If residents died and their bodies were unclaimed, they could be handed over to the Medical Institute's for dissection.

如果住在那裡的居民過世，且遺體無人認領，就可以交給醫學機構進行解剖。

Surging scientific curiosity and the rapid expansion of medical schools meant there was a growing demand for cadavers.

科學好奇心的激增和醫學院的快速擴張，意味著對屍體的需求日益增長。

In the 19th century, this had led to a sinister trade.

在 19 世紀，這導致了一種陰險的交易。

Sometimes bodies were stolen, even murdered, publicly dissected and displayed without consent.

有時，遺體會被盜竊，甚至被謀殺，在未經同意的情況下公開解剖和展示。

So the UK is very much one of the probably few countries where the person's consent is the most important.

所以，英國很可能是少數幾個將捐贈者同意視為最重要的國家之一。

People imagine that once we have a donor on site that we can do what we want with them, perhaps, or they think that there's no control of what's happening to their body.

人們想像，一旦我們有了捐贈者，我們就可以隨心所欲地處理他們，或者他們認為對他們的遺體沒有任何控制。

But there's a lot of consent throughout the whole process with people, when they're signing up and they'll.

但在整個過程中，與人們簽署同意書並進行的溝通，有大量的同意。

They will literally say, I don't care what you do, I don't care what you do with me.

他們會很直白地說，我不在乎你們怎麼做，我不在乎你們對我做什麼。

Stick me in a jar, you know, it's not what we do.

把它們泡在罐子裡，你知道的，這不是我們做的。

We always want the body here as close to the time of death as possible.

我們總是希望遺體盡可能地接近死亡時間。

That just ensures that decomposition hasn't happened.

That ensures the body's in as good of condition as possible.

這能確保遺體處於最好的狀態。

We have to be able to get chemicals to preserve them through their heart, through their arteries, into their extremities.

我們必須能夠將化學藥劑透過他們的心臟、動脈，輸送到四肢，以保存他們。

The bodies are submerged in a chemical embalming solution for six months.

這些遺體會浸泡在化學防腐溶液中六個月。

This method preserves the cadavers so that the soft tissue remains flexible.

這種方法可以保存屍體，讓軟組織保持柔軟。

They can be perfused with fluid to simulate blood flow.

他們可以透過灌注液體來模擬血液流動。

They have skin that is a realistic color and looks like you or I.

他們的皮膚顏色逼真，看起來就像你我一樣。

For medical students and researchers, donated bodies provide a safe way to learn and test without risking patient safety.

對於醫學生和研究人員來說，捐贈的遺體提供了一個安全的學習和測試途徑，而不會危及病患安全。

Mum's view is very much that I'm helping the.

媽媽的想法是，我正在幫助未來的醫生。

And she was very proud of that, wasn't she?

她為此感到非常驕傲，不是嗎？

One week, we can have a company that wants to test a new robotic catheter.

一週，我們可能會有一間公司想測試新的機器人導管。

Another week, we can have people trying to train AI that interprets radiographs using the cadavers.

另一週，我們可能會有人們試著訓練 AI，利用屍體來判讀 X 光片。

Another week, we might have yoga teachers who wish to revise their anatomy.

再一週，我們可能有瑜珈老師想複習他們的解剖學。

Dundee is a leading center for thromboctomy training, a procedure that removes clots from the brain after a stroke.

鄧迪是血栓切除術訓練的領導中心，這是一種中風後清除腦部血栓的手術。

Using cadavers, they've pioneered a way to simulate the procedure, allowing clinicians to train in conditions that closely mirror real life.

他們利用屍體開創了一種模擬手術的方法，讓臨床醫生能在極度貼近真實情況的條件下進行訓練。

It's a breakthrough that directly saves lives.

這是一項能直接拯救生命的突破。

We do believe if someone's consented to donate their body, it's beholden upon us to do as much with that body as we possibly can.

我們相信，如果有人同意捐贈遺體，我們就有責任盡可能地利用那具遺體。

The department holds an annual funeral service attended by families, staff and trainee doctors who have worked with the bodies.

該部門每年都會舉辦一場追思會，由家屬、員工和曾與這些遺體共事的實習醫生參加。

We're very aware all the time that every single donor is an individual with loved ones who supported this choice and who wanted to be here.

我們一直都很清楚，每一位捐贈者都是一個個體，他們有摯愛的親友支持這個決定，並且希望在這裡。

We ask students to do readings what body donation has meant to them.

我們會請學生們寫下遺體捐贈對他們的意義。

And the relatives get so much comfortable.

Just the sense of relief that they all seem to have at the end of it is palpable.

他們在結束時，那種如釋重負的感覺，真的非常明顯。

Our silent teachers, as that is exactly what they were, provided us with.

我們的無聲老師，正如他們確實是，給予了我們。

A text that no book could duplicate, no series of lectures could match, and no computer could simulate.

一本任何書本都無法複製、任何一系列講座都無法比擬、任何電腦都無法模擬的教材。

And we will forever be humbled, forever indebted by their gracious gift.

我們將永遠對他們的慷慨捐贈感到謙卑、永遠銘感五內。

And in our minds, they will live on and on.

在我們心中，他們將永世長存。

It's actually quite comforting to know that, because I didn't.

知道這一點其實滿讓人安慰的，因為我沒有。

I still didn't feel like she's gone as such because we didn't go to her grave.

我仍然覺得她沒有真正離開，因為我們沒有去她的墓地。

And I know that she's she's not alive, but her body's still there.

而且我知道她人不在了，但她的身體還在。

這對我來說，其實滿讓人安慰的。

If a body donation means that someone is able to save a life in the future, then that is a huge impact.

如果遺體捐贈能讓未來有人能是以救回一命，那影響就太大了。

There's a story behind every single donation.

每一樁捐贈背後都有一個故事。

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