Channel 4 are brutal at times. Last night they followed 24 hours with a program called ‘My Dead Body’, in which a young mother who died of cancer had donated her body to science and to be dissected on television.I’m finding these episodes almost too harrowing.
Now I’ve seen cadaver programs before, and they can be quite interesting. But typically they use old people who died of natural causes. Mixing that kind of show with interviews with the girl before she died, interviews with her parents and friends, and showing video clips of her as a little girl stopped you from seeing what was on the slab as “just a body”. It reminded you that this was a person loved by many. It was a very tough watch.
It had to go off after a little while. I might give Channel 4 a miss for a little while.