Mum’s wish to give her body to science compounded my grief when she died

Even my experience as an emergency nurse couldn’t prepare me for how my mother’s decision would complicate my shock at her sudden death

Every year about 600 people in the UK donate their bodies after death to medical science. In 2015, my mother was one of them.

Nursing Standard. 33, 8, 60-62. doi: 10.7748/ns.33.8.60.s18

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31 October 2018 / Vol 33 issue 8