"Conserve, Reuse, Recycle"

Semrau's point is revealed in this phrase: "Quite simply, us what you have until it can no longer function. Then it's time to recycle."Semrau intentionally keeps some important information from you throughout the article until the end on purpose.  This helps the intent of the essay a lot. If you knew from the beginning that he was going to be a cadaver at med school, you probably would not have been as interested in the article from the start. A seventy five year old man just starting to go to school to be a surgeon seems a little strange and makes you think of all the things you could try until you die.  He only focuses on reusing himself and his abilities to help do things for other.  But in the end you learn that by going to med school he is actually recycling himself by donating his own body for research, a very big sacrifice to some people. By intentionally not telling us this kind of information makes the reader want to continue reading and find out how he was planning on doing this, and I am pretty sure that no one would see him becoming a cadaver coming at the end.