Medical use of your body after death

Medical use of your body after death In his will, the philosopher, lawyer and reformer Jeremy Bentham donated his body to his friend Doctor Southwood Smith, who was to put the soft parts in labelled glass cases and articulate the skeleton ‘in such a manner that the whole figure may be seated in a chair usually occupied by me when living’. Dressed in one of Bentham’s own black suits, the skeleton was to preside over meetings of his ‘personal friends and other disciples’. Bentham’s body can still be seen in the South Cloisters of University College London.