My Dead Body

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This might be very sad but I'm watching it. Anyone else?
she sounds lovely.

I'm going to watch but i don't want to know too much about her so I'm waiting a bit.

Yes I’m watching. Sad and fascinating at the same time. What an amazing woman.

What an amazing woman to allow this to be done and educate so many

This is going to be a tough watch as she lived in the same town as me. Such a brave young lady.

I feel the same, I’m always fascinated by post-mortems but of an anonymous person so to speak

I'm watching. My grandparents donated to medical science, and I have registered to do the same. Absolutely fascinating, but obviously such a sad situation.

Her parents are incredible too.

Yes definitely

Hard enough for us to watch, goodness knows what it must be like for her parents, family and friends.

Got a lump in my throat.

That was a hard watch

Very moving

Very thought provoking. What a brave woman. RIP.

I was very moved by the sensitivity and professionalism of the anatomist.

I saw the trailers and wasn't planning to watch it. I then saw it was about to start so thought I'd see how it was shown. What a sensitive programme. She did an amazing thing donating her body to research like that. I think the only bit that gave me the heebies was her eye. It made me cry at the end when they coffined her and had a minutes silence

It was incredibly hard to watch, but very sensitively done.

Her little girl at the end reading the book her mum had made for her got me.

I enjoyed it, but I would have liked to have heard less of the emotional stuff from her family and seen more of the actual dissection of the body.

I thought the same to be honest. There was a show on BBC3 I think a few years ago that showed similar and it showed much more of the dissection side.

There was also the channel 4 guy who used to do this can't think of his name. I thought it would show more also, it was advertised as quite groundbreaking but we didn't see much disection.

Dr Gunther Von Hagens, or similar. He did displays using bodies he had preserved.

Thanks for this. Would have never known about it otherwise. Totally my thing.

I thought it was really disappointing. I was there for the dissection and they were so determined to be respectful they barely showed anything. Hopefully it was more educational for the students.

Her story was very sad and she seemed like a lovely woman, i hasten to add.

Also, don't they dissect cadavers all the time? Do they always have a minute's silence? Nice if they do.

Yes. There wasn't a lot of actual dissection. I was interested to see how the tumours had spread. Bit morbid I know.
I thought they had 12 workshops on the body but only showed one or two.
The emotional and family part of it I thought was lovely. Showed what an amazing person she was.
Really the whole show could have been another hour long to go into more detail.

This was such an emotional watch. I spent much of it with tears rolling down my cheeks. My mum donated her body to science in 2019, a year before Toni passed away, and was used at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

This was such an interesting insight into how mum may have been used.

This is a AMA I made at the time:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/AMA/3653395-My-mum-died-recently-and-left-her-body-to-science-AMA?page=1