This is what your body looks like after you donate your bones to science. PVC is then placed where your bones used to be if you'll be having a viewing or service at your funeral. This person also had skin grafts taken, which is very common if you donate your entire body.Skin, Bone and Tissue Donations are taken to the extreme and nothing is wasted. human tissue and bone can be recovered up to 24 hours after cardiac death, Unlike the major organs, which can only be taken from a brain-dead patient whose heart is still beating. What you donate your whole body to science you donate more than, hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys. It also involves the recovery of large swaths of human skin; long bones of the arms, leg and scapula; tendons and ligaments, corneas and heart valves, This makes all non-cancer patients under age 90 potential donors. Although body donation sounds jawing, It’s an amazing gift and you’re helping someone regain a healthy normal life after yours has past.