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Dear Don, If you will volunteer your address, I can send you information on the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center along with an Advance Power of Attorney for Health Care Directive which should take you step by step through the process you discuss. E (of the headdress) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Kaspari" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 8:45 AM Subject: Organ Donation for Parkinson Research > Does anyone have information as to the best procedure for donating the brain > at death for Parkinson's research? Shirley mentioned this to be her desire > shortly after she was diagnosed with PD. The donation is not mentioned in her > will. She now has serious dementia. I, as her Significant Other and Legal > Guardian, am in the process of getting her funeral prearrangement set up with the > mortuary and I believe I can have her wishes for brain donation for > Parkinson's research mentioned in these prearrangement's. I need to know the proper > way to do this as well as the address or whatever I may need for pre-acceptance > of the donation if possible. I believe the mortuary will be able to help me > but I would like to make certain that everything is done correctly. Shirley > was an RN and she was very certain that she wanted to help PD research. Her > mother also had PD. Shirley is in a nursing home. > > Any help from anyone will be greatly appreciated. > > Don Kaspari, Lincoln, Nebraska > Shirley, 67/8 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn