College to hold service in memory of body donors

The “first patients” of medical, dental and science students will be remembered in a thanksgiving service for people who donate their bodies to University College Cork.

Since 1849, UCC has received about 20 bodies each year from the Munster area.

The non-denominational service will be the first ever to be held in memory of the “public-spirited people” who indicated prior to their deaths that they wished to donate their bodies to the college’s department of anatomy and neuroscience.