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Title: Would you perform an autopsy on a friend?
Post by: Mr. Scientist on 07/12/2009 05:13:50: Me and my friends got into a pervetedly-sick conversation - yet again - and we asked each other whether we would perform an autopsy on a friend, if it meant that the autopsy itself would extract valuable information into their cause of death.

I answered yes.. For the sake of knowing that my friend was not murdered, other's said no, because the idea of cutting up their deceased friend disturbed them, and quite rightly so.

So... would you?
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Post by: Don_1 on 07/12/2009 07:21:12: Certainly not, I'd leave it to a pathologist.
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Post by: geo driver on 07/12/2009 07:24:37: not a clue depends if i was the cause of death
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 07/12/2009 07:39:27: :) - adament answers - this is pretty much how our conversation went too lol
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Post by: Bored chemist on 07/12/2009 19:53:08: I'd only do it if they asked me to.
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Post by: DrN on 07/12/2009 21:38:06: I'm with Don on that one. Either that, or we'd have to deep freeze the body while I studied forensic pathology.
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Post by: RD on 08/12/2009 10:21:20: Armin Meiwes would (and dispose of the leftovers) ...

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Armin Meiwes (born December 1, 1961) is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim that he had found via the Internet ... Since entering prison, Meiwes has become a vegetarian *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

* or so he tells his cell-mate [:)].
Title: Would you perform an autopsy on a friend?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/12/2009 19:30:25: Quote from: DiscoverDave on 08/12/2009 13:59:50
Yeesh! I can't even remove a hook from a fish.
Then don't put it in.
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 09/12/2009 17:28:22: Quote from: Bored chemist on 07/12/2009 19:53:08
I'd only do it if they asked me to.

AHH... That was my main condition also... so we do actually have mutual thoughts :)
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 09/12/2009 17:29:52: Quote from: DrN on 07/12/2009 21:38:06
I'm with Don on that one. Either that, or we'd have to deep freeze the body while I studied forensic pathology.

I can assure you, that's certainly much deeper than any of my friends and myself considered. :)
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 09/12/2009 17:31:05: Quote from: Bored chemist on 08/12/2009 19:30:25
Quote from: DiscoverDave on 08/12/2009 13:59:50
Yeesh! I can't even remove a hook from a fish.
Then don't put it in.

Sounds almost sexual... Gee... It's too much now for me... lol :)
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 09/12/2009 17:32:06: No --- I retract my statement. It's all about me and my dirty mind lol
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Post by: Make it Lady on 09/12/2009 21:13:40: I could chop up everything but the eyes. Eyes make me go all funny.
I guess I'd be more respectful of a friends body and a great amount of mind over matter would have to take place.
I would eat their liver with lima beans and a drop of Chianti.
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Post by: DrN on 09/12/2009 23:12:23: Ooh, there is another person in the world who goes loopy over eyes?!? I have a recurring dream where a dentists tooth scraper thing is used to scrape away the whites of the eyes. Horrible. [:o]
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Post by: Chemistry4me on 09/12/2009 23:25:10: Eye see you.
Would eye dissect my friend? Probably not.

Quote from: Make it Lady on 09/12/2009 21:13:40
I would eat their liver with lima beans and a drop of Chianti.

*yum*
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 10/12/2009 04:25:04: Quote from: Make it Lady on 09/12/2009 21:13:40
I could chop up everything but the eyes. Eyes make me go all funny.
I guess I'd be more respectful of a friends body and a great amount of mind over matter would have to take place.
I would eat their liver with lima beans and a drop of Chianti.

lol
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Post by: Karen W. on 10/12/2009 04:41:05: ooh.. I can watch surgery, but not murder, violence, kind of gore, makes me nauseated, especially when real violence is envolved.
I do however think if it were necessary, that I could examine my friend, given I had the proper knowledge to perform an autopsy.
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 10/12/2009 05:12:06: Quote from: Karen W. on 10/12/2009 04:41:05
ooh.. I can watch surgery, but not murder, violence, kind of gore, makes me nauseated, especially when real violence is envolved.
I do however think if it were necessary, that I could examine my friend, given I had the proper knowledge to perform an autopsy.

Ditto :)
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Post by: chris on 11/12/2009 16:04:08: A friend of mine - who is a histopathologist - told me recently that she did once do a PM on a friend, at the request of the friend's family.

Chris
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 11/12/2009 16:19:35: Mmmm.. I guess it does cross one's mind then :)
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Post by: geo driver on 12/12/2009 22:56:01: bloody hellfire.... not shocking but well nerves of steal
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Post by: Mr. Scientist on 12/12/2009 23:19:30: Who me?

The body when dead to me is no more than the kind of lifeless matter of a dead animal unless i had an attactment to it - in which case, i would have problems. If its on morality, then it is all causal to what that person would have wanted, more than any personal decision i could make on doing an autopsy.

:)
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Post by: Bored chemist on 13/12/2009 21:21:05: Quote from: Make it Lady on 09/12/2009 21:13:40
I could chop up everything but the eyes. Eyes make me go all funny.
I guess I'd be more respectful of a friends body and a great amount of mind over matter would have to take place.
I would eat their liver with lima beans and a drop of Chianti.

That's gross.
I can't satnd Chianti.