Veteran Left leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, passed away on September 12, 2024. His family has donated his body to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, for teaching and research purposes. By choosing to donate his body to science, Yechury follows a tradition upheld by several prominent Left leaders, who donated their bodies including Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (in August 2024 to Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata), Jyoti Basu (in 2010 to SSKM Hospital, Kolkata), and Somnath Chatterjee (in 2018 to SSKM Hospital, Kolkata).