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Not op, or an expert on radiation poisoning, but, one can receive a lethal dose of radiation in an instant (and be condemned to certain death) but not die for w
by elromulous 4y ago
Not op, or an expert on radiation poisoning, but, one can receive a lethal dose of radiation in an instant (and be condemned to certain death) but not die for weeks.
Credentials: I've read about the demon core[0] and watched Chernobyl on HBO.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
- elromulous 4y agoP.s. Also see this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
- Hamuko 4y agoOr months if your family/the doctors prolong your suffering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents#Impact_on_technicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents#Im...
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoThe family was just clueless and it would have been the job of the doctors to tell them the truth. But they wanted to use the rare case for some scientific glory.
- brutusborn 4y agoWikipedia says his wife wanted him to see the year 2000. I suspect doctors just followed family orders, not much glory in keeping an almost-corpse alive.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoAh, doctor is a trained professional, who is forced to uphold the truth and stand up as the agent of reason against delusional personal wishes of humans in denial. You can not see the year 2000 with shredded dna. They knew, they did not insist, they created the ilusion of possible cure and healing for what was essentially a hospice cure. They created a situation, were they applied cures that could not work to a patient that wanted to die. And they knew. Let those monsters not be hidden behind the cluelessness of the family. Clinging to life at all costs, until there is nothing left, but a heap of hellish pain and machines, a good doctor will, should & must prevent this.
- brutusborn 4y agoI agree that unnecessary suffering should be prevented, however I see no evidence that the family was under any illusion.
- Salgat 4y agoAh yes the man with no DNA. Stuff of nightmares.