Families left in the dark: UCSD, USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to Navy for Israeli military training
In 2021, Jeanette Volpin felt she had lost control of her life. At 101 years old, having recently lost the ability to read and drive, she told her relatives she wanted to leave the Earth on her own terms. After choosing medically assisted suicide, she donated her body to the University of Southern California’s Anatomical Gift Program. She made the decision following a career in medicine and a long...
