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AGRA: Doyen of Hindi poetry and Padma Bhushan awardee Gopal Das Neeraj's wish that his body be donated to AMU’s JN Medical College to enable students to learn the intricacies of the God’s greatest creation, will be fulfilled by his family on Saturday.Confirming this, Neeraj’s daughter, Kundanika Sharma said, “My father had given in writing to donate his body to the medical college after his death. The department actually needs at least 5 bodies per year for students’ training.Head of Anatomy Department of JN Medical College Prof Tariq Zaidi told TOI that Neeraj had filled the donation form on 15 September 2016. He had signed on stamp paper in the presence of witness and his sons. We would go to Aligarh on Saturday to fulfil his wish.”A declaration by noted poet Gopal Das Neeraj to donate his body to the AMU 's medical collegeNeeraj's decision has once again proved that he had not only lived as a great human being but died as one too. Though many people pledge their bodies but their family’s rarely fulfil their wishes because of superstitions and beliefs attached with it.According to figures given by the Anatomy Department of JN Medical College, nearly 141 persons had got themselves registered for body donation in the past six years, but the hospital has received only 6 cadavers till date..