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When a body is donated to a school of medicine, students and researchers may need to keep the remains for several years before cremation. At that point, the ashes may be returned to family members, either for a private burial or for preservation in a vault. But that cost can easily exceed $3,000. Ending that expense is a new partnership in suburban Detroit. It links the region’s newest medical school with a city-run cemetery and a funeral home, letting people donate their bodies to science and then preserving their ashes inside a massive cemetery vault at no cost.

Those who pledge their bodies to the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine will have their ashes interred inside a half-century-old,12-by-17-foot granite vault at Rochester’s historic city-owned cemetery, Rochester’s Mount Avon Cemetery.​

Christina Drakos, Body Donation Program Coordinator

Mail: Christina Drakos
Body Donation Program Coordinator
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
586 Pioneer Drive
O’Dowd Hall, Rm. 455
Rochester, MI 48309-4482