Would you consider this?

[annie]

Daughter proud of late mother’s courage in giving her body for medical training in major TV documentary

A PROUD daughter has spoken of her late mother’s courage in giving her body for medical training and taking part in a major TV documentary on the subject.

Former East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust nurse Diana King, 54, died from cancer in October last year having decided her body should be used to train doctors and surgeons.

Her final months and what happened afterwards feature in a two-part Channel Five documentary Body Donors, the first of which aired this week, Mrs King, who lived in Belthorn with 65-year-old husband Wayne, talks of her illness and her decision to donate her body to medical science in the film which also features her 30-year-old daughter Danielle Copley, from Oswaldtwistle.

The film, available on demand 5 and channel5.com, also tells of the case of Mike from North Wales who donated his body too.

The next episode on Channel 5, at 9pm on Tuesday, shows how Mrs King’s body is used to train medics at the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre.

This includes using Accrington-born Mrs King’s body to trial a revolutionary robot hip replacement surgery later used successfully on a living patient known as Geraldine.


Mrs Copley said: “I am so proud of my mother.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/ne ... cumentary/

[maureenho]

No I wouldn't.

[Rosalind]

I could not do it

[wendy]

I only wish I had her courage.

[Honey]

No
x

[JaneJ]

The thought if been fiddled about with gives me the shivers.

a very courageous woman though