What happens to body parts after surgery?

I suppose I've been wondering lately—what actually happens to the limbs, the tumors, or the organs once they're surgically removed or amputated? Where do they actually go?

One of the wildest rumors I heard was that the whole thing just ends up being turned into pâté for some shady way of disposing of stuff... hehehehe...

As for me... I usually go with a quick autopsy first, and then I just burn the evidence...

It’s not just about the pâtés, it’s about the whole deli platter😎

It’s pure pathology. Honestly, some of this stuff belongs in a museum at Rutgers, or maybe tucked away in an anatomy lab—or quite frankly, just tossed straight into the dumpster.

Seriously, I am officially done. I am never touching deli meats or pâté ever again. I mean it. Just go to hell.😠 😠 😠 😠 ........
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I guess I'm actually feeling pretty hungry now too.....

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Megan Reed said:I met this woman recently who had her arm amputated—now her hand is just sitting there in some glass display case at a university somewhere. 😲

Everything’s just sitting there on the university campus—clutter everywhere. Just wait until you get to court. 😬

I assume patients sign some kind of waiver allowing their body parts to be used for medical training, faculty exhibits, or perhaps even turned into some grotesque sculpture—or god forbid, a deli meat platter...

I once heard this story about someone tossing out the trash; apparently, a guy from a local salad bar was walking by when he saw a stray dog rooting through a garbage bag and pulling out a human hand. Just... yeah. Goosebumps.

Unless there’s a specific arrangement in place, medical waste of organic origin typically ends up in a standard biohazard bin. Of course, if you donate those materials to a university, a research society, or an institute, you might actually be able to request a proper burial for them.

It gets even weirder when you consider amputated parts that have been treated with radioactive substances; those end up classified as radioactive waste and get tossed into containers sitting right over at Rutgers—unless, of course, someone decides to secretly dump them somewhere else entirely (though I’m mostly just speculating on that part)

When we talk about biohazardous waste, we aren’t just talking about tissue samples or organs. It includes everything from blood-soaked gauze to all the leftover scraps from an outpatient surgery center or a lab—stuff like used syringes and needles too. All of this has to be packed into specialized heavy-duty plastic containers that are much tougher than your average trash bag. They then get tossed into specifically marked bins to make sure there isn't any biological contamination leaking out into the surrounding area, before finally being sent off to high-heat medical waste incinerators.
There are actually specialized disposal companies that handle all of this, and man, they don't come cheap. They charge a premium because handling anything that poses a biological hazard is strictly regulated by federal law here in the States.