What DNA Evidence would you want to leave behind? According to a San Francisco Chronicle article Shrink-wrapped genes: DNA Direct of S.F. offers consumer service DNA Direct offers a service to freeze dry your DNA so that you could keep it in a sock drawer if you wanted and reconstitute it with water should the desire ever present itself. The question is, what would you really want to leave behind?
Some of the more normal things that people do with genetic material is check for predispositions for certain ailments. I could see where maybe people who die of unknown causes might want to leave their DNA behind so that it could be studied in the future. But there's also people who are taking DNA from their dead dads to check for paternity.
My grandmother left her body to science, but after watching one to many medical programs I don't think that's for me... too humiliating even if I am dead, but I could see the possibility of leaving my DNA to science (note to you vultures out there, this is no way represents consent.) I can just imagine, 100 years from now someone reconstituting my DNA and saying wow... can you imagine how blissfully ignorant this person must have been in life not realizing how many potential problems there were?
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