| Summary: | This touching two part series meets the dedicated team whose job it is to retrieve life-saving tissue from the deceased. Revealing the extraordinary process from death to the recycling of human tissue in the living. This is the unseen, intimate and fascinating world of tissue donation. NHSBT's Tissue Services in Liverpool is the largest retrieval and storage facility of human tissue in the UK. From poignant telephone calls with the recently bereaved to the challenging tissue donations carried out by the retrieval team, this is an opportunity to enter this never-before-seen world. As the team travel across the nation day and night, we share their intimate reflections on the meaning of life and death and discover how they cope psychologically with the challenges and emotional demands of the job. Away from the medical process of the retrievals, we meet some of the many young tissue recipients as their lives are transformed through the generosity of donors. From those nearly blinded by disease, teenagers whose young lives have been put on hold and young children facing life and death situations, this is the unseen, intimate and fascinating world of tissue donation.
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