I consider it part of my responsibility to help younger students who show the kind of promise you do, so you're welcome. But to answer your question, it could be a possibility if there were a way to reinvigorate dead flesh for examination, or possibly some kind of internal pensieve that could be used on a dead brain, just for scanning bodily functions.

And yes, anything more than the most minor of compensation is taboo. I suppose because they don't want researchers taking advantage of poor people, but if we were allowed proper payments, it would be like giving them a job where they'd be useful to society, so I hardly understand the logic there.