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

Calum Edge Major trauma nurse coordinator, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

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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