Going "Green"

    Semrau’s point for writing this article is most clearly stated with the sentence, “use what you have until it can no longer function. Then it’s time to recycle.” This shows his point because at the end he tells us of his decision to donate his body as a cadaver for medical school, and how this is his “reusing” of his body, once he done with it of course. Throughout the article he does not tell us he is donating his body to science, rather he talks about his careers and his recent renewed interest in surgery. He then tells us that he is applying to Harvard and that acceptance is almost assured, then he drops the bomb… instead of going as a student, he is going as a cadaver. He intentionally leaves this information out because it keeps the readers attention, because they would want to know who in their right mind would take a seventy-five year old man and admit him into medical school, since he will be to old to do surgery by the time he gets out. This intentional omission of information kept me reading, and made me think about donating my body to science as well.