When they come in, they can come in in all different states.
They come from funeral homes or care homes or their home or hospitals.
So it's just about taking their clothes off, we clean them, we shave their hair,
take their tags off so we take anything that has their name off them and put them into the freezers.
I'm in a room surrounded by dead human bodies.
They were sent here to Brighton and Sussex Medical School shortly after their death.
Tomorrow,
surgeons will use these bodies on a training course learning techniques that will save people who've suffered life-threatening injuries.
For the past five years, I've been exploring how and why people donate their bodies.
Why, in an age of virtual reality and 3D simulation,
does medical science still need those donations?
It's taken months of negotiation to be allowed in this room.
Camilla Ingram is the pro-sector here.
She prepares the donors for use in the anatomy department.
So we're coming into dissection room number one.
It's got lots of teaching materials around the room.
We've got potted specimens and skeletons and bones.
And over there on those steel tables are the donors.
Yes, they are.
and they're covered and we are only supposed to be in the same room as them when they're covered.