Marie Muscarnera

Ms. Muscarnera, it turns out, grew up in Brooklyn in dire poverty, the oldest of 10 children in an Italian immigrant family that depended on her teenage labor to survive. But by the time she died, in 2005, her fierce drive, dressmaking talent and shrewd investments had earned her a nest egg of more than $1.3 million. She left it all to charity, including $691,700 to N.Y.U.’s medical school. Separately, like Joseph [her brother], who was disabled and lived for years under her care until he died at NYU Langone, she gave the medical school her body for use as a cadaver.

The N.Y.U. form she signed stated, “I wish my remains to be cremated and the New York University School of Medicine to be responsible for burying or spreading the cremains in a dignified manner.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/nyregion/bodies-given-to-nyu-ended-up-in-mass-graves-despite-donors-wishes.html?_r=0