“She informed us that was her strategy. She had each one printed out, signed, and asked us to serve as her witnesses. It seemed easy to her.
“It was a quintessential Toni action,” her dad Jason continued. “Check every box on the form; assist her in any way you can; accept everything.”
We had a little conversation about how they might retain her corpse for a while and how she had said that they could take photos.
The group “didn’t realize” at the time how “groundbreaking” what she intended to achieve was, he continued.
Professor Claire Smith, Head of Anatomy at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), picked up Toni’s file after her passing and reviewed her medical records.