The obituary for journalist Louis Permanier, who died last October, included the revealing data. Despite his funeral and public notoriety, one of Barcelona’s most important chroniclers, he donated his body to science. In the neoclassical pantheon of tomb legends with the conspiracy of Les Champres, the final service to the curiosities that occur in its tray sectaries will be placed on the dissecting table.
The three largest universities in Catalonia alone require a combined total of around 300 organizations each year to carry out training activities. In the field for future doctors. They are also enrolled in nursing, logopedics, biomedical engineering, and physical therapy, which require training in anatomy. On topics related to Barcelona, Permanier also writes about anatomy. Now, the subject of research is the anatomy of the chronicler.
it was the subject of one of his articles La Vanguardia In the past two years, the medieval morgues of Barcelona and Santa Cruz Hospital have been reunited. A veteran journalist recalled that in October 2024, most of the spoils of the deaths of poor patients and their families have been research materials for professors and students for 500 years. The body ended up falling into a communal pit. Colalettolocated where the source of Dr. Fleming’s Garden in Laval now stands.
5000 years of science has shocked citizens and has often become an icon. The hospital’s relocation to the new modernist district of Sant Pau, opened in 1930, condemned the mass graves, which on paper did not work after the royal veto of 1775. While waiting to return to the morgue, he chose to stack and cover the bodies. Permanilla explained that during the construction of the Library of Catalonia, a wall collapsed, exposing a cave surrounded by thousands of walls, and the image was so moving that Picasso wanted to perform an exorcism with the dead Donna.
Like the chronicler, Dr. Santiago Rojas decided that his final lesson would be something like an anatomy pieza. He is the head of the Anatomy Room at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Faculty of Medicine, where students, researchers and surgeons looking to practice surgery are based. “My first warning was that you have to treat the objects with respect. They were human beings, they were delicate things. But that’s why I don’t want to touch everything that needs to be done. This is not a museum,” he explains.
UAB Solo needs up to 70 bodies each year to meet its needs. The donor registry has been closed for the past 10 years, but the number of people registered is now 4,000. At the other end of the list is Pompeu Fabra, which has just 250 volunteers and receives requests. The death toll stands at 16. Staying with his wife, and explaining his family’s sources, he said that they made the choice because the body was taken to the University of Barcelona (UB) many years ago. This is the maximum number of people needed for the headquarters, totaling 200 people. Albert Platz, professor of medicine at the center, explains that while there are 13,000 volunteers on record, he estimates that only about 8,000 are effective. “Sometimes the family objects at the last moment or doesn’t know he is the donor,” he explains.
Voluntary donations alone are not enough. Rojas explains that she cannot accept victims of violent death who donate their organs. If you need it as is. The law also prohibits the use of human remains infected with HIV or hepatitis B and C, which is guaranteed by tests taken from the bodies. Obese people are also rejected, since excess fat makes the process difficult. “The main reason for giving is altruism, but much of it speaks to the need to avoid burdens on families,” Platts says. At the time of registration, declare that you may be elderly.
Permanel captivated me with its storytelling until the very last moment. At UAB, Rojas explains, one leg or one trunk was able to pass through 18 groups of students for two hours each. But even in some parts, the corpse explains a lot, but it also causes damage that leaves seizures in the beige brain, the effects of the liquid that prepares the corpse, and the damage that ensures the preservation of the corpse. They are marked to ensure durability and are incinerated at the end of their useful life. “At a time when institutional reform was occurring in this country, it seemed to me more useful to write in my diary as a columnist from Barcelona than to speak from Vietnam,” the journalist declared in 1988, explaining his progression from the international to the domestic sector. Almost 37 years later, and at the most transitional period of its existence, its usefulness is up for debate.
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