Death is not an easy subject of discussion for most of us. Few people plan for what happens afterwards; we’re too busy avoiding talking about it. Even fewer think about how their body, the vessel that carries us through life, could help medical science once we’ve disembarked for good. For Toni Crews, a single mother of two children who died of cancer in 2020 aged just 30, though, death was an opportunity to save lives.
On Monday night, the British public will watch her brain being examined by curious medical students on Channel 4’s My Dead Body: the first time that a named British person has had their remains publicly dissected on TV.
