ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Body Donation Registration in Taiwan: Reasons and Associated Psychological Factors.
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- Perceptions of death, dying and the body in Vietnamese culture: A qualitative exploration from a study examining the potentials of minimally invasive tissue sampling in Vietnam.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2026Article
- Body donation under Italy's recent legal reforms: A cross-sectional study of attitudes, beliefs, and educational gaps among medical students and faculty.Anatomical sciences education · 2025Article
- Behavioural activation activities for employees in the Chinese culture: A workshop.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Dissection is an essential element of medical training and depends on the availability of cadavers. However, traditional Chinese culture widely regards the body as a gift from one's parents that should remain intact after death, resulting in a shortage of cadavers for medical training and research. This situation changed in Taiwan when Master Cheng Yen, the founder of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, supported the donation of bodies to medical science. This study aimed to investigate the current situation of body donation in Taiwan, including donors' motivation and psychological characteristics. A questionnaire was conducted with 681 adult participants, including 336 people who pledged to donate their bodies to medical science after death and a control group comparable in age, gender, and level of education. All participants answered questions regarding anxiety over death, purpose in life, gratitude, altruism, and life satisfaction. In addition, the registered donor group answered questions regarding the motivation for donating their bodies to science. The main influencing factors were to help advance medical science, make a positive contribution to society, and release attachment from the body. Further, many male participants indicated the desire to reduce trouble and expenses that their families would incur in making funeral and burial or cremation arrangements. The main predictors of donating one's body to medical science were low anxiety concerning death, a high level of altruism, and gratitude.
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