'Why I kept my wife's body after her death'

Published: May 9, 2017, 5:35 p.m.

b'A man has revealed how he slept in the same room as his wife\'s body for six days after she died.\\n\\nWendy Davison, 50, died at home in Derby last month after a 10-year battle with cervical cancer.\\n\\nRussell Davison, who has been left "heartbroken", said he did not want her body to go to a mortuary and he wanted to challenge attitudes towards dying.\\n\\nMr Davison explains to Eddie Mair his family\'s unusual perspective on death. \\n\\n(Image:Wendy and Russell Davison. Credit: Paul Clark)'