Body donation more acceptable among youth

LANZHOU - With the New Year approaching, many young people are buying gifts, but Geng Yingying is thinking about a serious subject - death. A healthy 21-year-old student at Northwest Normal University in Gansu province, Geng signed documents to donate her body for medical research and education because she wants to leave a legacy to the world after her death. She first learned about body donation through a volunteer activity in 2016. Not long after that, one of her friends died in an accident.

"I realized life is vulnerable and I wanted to make it more meaningful," she says.

Geng is among a growing number of young Chinese who have registered as voluntary body donors in recent years.