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The woman who volunteered to have her body frozen and 'milled' into 27,000 hair-thin slices
Daily Mail ^ | 13 Dec 2018 | MIA DE GRAAF

Posted on 12/13/2018 7:17:58 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

She wanted to be embalmed, sliced up and digitized for the purpose of teaching But she ended up living 15 years and in that time recorded herself so students understand the woman behind the medical records She regularly visited the lab to see how her body would be sawed up and photographed, the fridge where she'd be kept, and to meet the students

And she wanted to direct some of the process, asking the team to saw her body to the sound of classical music, surrounded by roses (they played Mozart's Requiem and painted some roses on the door).

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To: DUMBGRUNT

I bet she didn’t count on getting a new body - to live eternally in one of two states.


41 posted on 12/13/2018 8:16:32 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Word of the day: Microtome

A microtome (from the Greek mikros, meaning "small", and temnein, meaning "to cut") is a tool used to cut extremely thin slices of material, known as sections. Important in science, microtomes are used in microscopy, allowing for …

42 posted on 12/13/2018 8:20:08 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

In college, I took a physiological psychology class. The lab was the dissection of human brains. The lab assistant brought in a large plastic bag of brains. Each table of 2 or 3 students got one. As some of you know, the brain consists of ‘grey matter’ and ‘white matter’ which look remarkably like light and dark meat turkey.

At another table one student put a couple of slices of brain between two pieces of white bread to make what looked like a turkey sandwich to gross out her roommates. Although we laughed at the time, I remember thinking that someone willed his or her body to science only to have their brain, where they were on this earth made into a mock turkey sandwich.


43 posted on 12/13/2018 8:40:00 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: GraceG

Don’t forget about MORRIS DANCING!


44 posted on 12/13/2018 8:54:08 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

http://legitgifts.com/magic-chopper-chops-slices-dices/

It slices and dices but more ....


45 posted on 12/13/2018 9:06:00 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

That was NOT what I expected!


46 posted on 12/13/2018 9:06:22 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hannibal Lecter would have done it for her, and served her up with a fine Chianti.


47 posted on 12/13/2018 9:09:49 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

She wanted classical music and roses but they couldn’t get roses so they painted pictures of roses on a door. What a bunch of liars.


48 posted on 12/13/2018 9:10:30 PM PST by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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To: a fool in paradise

49 posted on 12/13/2018 9:11:06 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: DesertRhino

Our mother decided she wanted to leave her body to the University of Rochester (NY) after she died. She had no life insurance, and didn’t want to be a burden to the family. My father was already gone. We weren’t too crazy about the idea, but let it go because that was what she had wanted to do. She died at the age of 69 in 1990 of lung cancer. We never knew what they did to her during the time she was in their possession, but about a year after, my sister got a call from them saying they were finished with her, and she could come pick up her cremated remains. We didn’t even know that was part of the deal. Anyway, my sister picked her up, and we buried her next to our father as the plot was already there for her. My only brother who was cremated is buried in the same plot with her. There’s room for one more, and I’m the last one left in the family, but I don’t want to be put there. I told my kids to just take my ashes, and the ashes of my three dead cats, and strew them wherever they want.


50 posted on 12/13/2018 9:20:33 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: webheart

They should also have played Patsy Cline’s “I Go To Pieces” or Neil Sedaka’s “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”.


51 posted on 12/13/2018 9:55:09 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: a fool in paradise
If you will allow me, here is the guide to the cross sections you courteously provided...


52 posted on 12/13/2018 10:11:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Chode
Indeed. Milling may not be the best choice of operations, huh?


53 posted on 12/13/2018 10:17:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GraceG

...and girls are girls and boys are boys.


54 posted on 12/13/2018 10:18:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: yesthatjallen
Revell beat those guys to the punch by about 60 years...

Dad bought me the kit when I was about 11 years old. I begged him to get me the Visible Woman so I could figure out how the parts went together, but mom nixed that request. I never did forgive her.

55 posted on 12/13/2018 10:24:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Are pranksters ever seriously considered for last wishes?

I can only imagine... Somebody wants to be thrown into the chicken dog vat, pulverized, and mixed together as the ultimate prank on people who love chicken dogs.


56 posted on 12/14/2018 1:32:51 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My sisters had the visible woman, I had the visible V8. I made out that Christmas! At 10 or 11 I could talk engines with the best of high school car crowd.


57 posted on 12/14/2018 1:38:41 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

From what I hear, she was a real cutup.


58 posted on 12/14/2018 2:19:02 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL...

Mmmmm


59 posted on 12/14/2018 2:58:22 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

thank you


60 posted on 12/14/2018 4:03:29 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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