Summary of an article ,, Susan Potter will live forever"

In ,, Susan Potter will live forever” ( National Geographic, January 2019), Cathy Newman present the story of the woman who donates her body to science and from that moment she will be live forever. After her death, her body was frozen, then divided into 27,000 pieces which were photographed and digitalized in a compendium of human anatomy.
Susan Potter decided to share her body because she desired to help the medical students.
In general, anatomy is the bedrock of medical studies but unfortunately, dissecting a cadaver, during which students can see the structure of the human body is very expensive and often insufficient. Because of that, in 1987 Michael J. Ackerman, an assistant director for high-performance computing and communications at the National Library of Medicine, came up with the idea to create a virtual body that will give the same result as a normal dissecting. Then in 1991 was established National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project and the team headed by Vic Spitzer and David Whitlock received a government contract grant of $720,000 to get started with the project. In the beginning, they wanted to show only  a healthy human body and the donor was supposed to be anonymous. However, in 2000, Susan Potter came to the researchers, declaring his willingness to sacrifice his body for research purposes. At first, Spitzer has refused her proposition because Potter suffered  various disease, but then came up the conclusion that the illnesses are also the subject of research of the future doctors and the case of Potter could be an interesting example to examine and to analysis.
In this way, a relationship between a scientist and a woman has been continued for 15 years.
Susan Potter died on 16th of February in 2015, at the age of 87. After her death, the visualization of her body was recreated from 27,000 pieces and which is now an important point for students of medicine.