Channel 4 autopsy
Discussion
Anyone watch it?
I'm not interested myself, but I don't understand why there's so much fuss about it. Seems to me that we've gone so far to sanitise our society so that we don't see giblets and death and stuff that we forget it is all around us, all the time. I mean right now I'm sitting millimtres away from my own guts!
I'm not interested myself, but I don't understand why there's so much fuss about it. Seems to me that we've gone so far to sanitise our society so that we don't see giblets and death and stuff that we forget it is all around us, all the time. I mean right now I'm sitting millimtres away from my own guts!
Yes I saw it - was very interesting actually, I don't know what the problem is. They could have used a fresher body though, that guy looked decidedly manky - apparenly he had been pickled for 8 months! But I suppose they didn't want to go too far with blood spurting out everywhere... 
I thought it was a load of poo! Way too short, it normally takes over an hour to do a full autopsy.
The camera work was awful, the organ dissections were cut so short as to show next to nothing.
The examiner didn’t seem to know how to do a lecture and was talking as if he was making mental notes to himself.
The body had been plasticised to stop the rot and smells so that it would be more acceptable to the audience – sod them I say, if they want to see an autopsy let them see it in all its gory glory.
I have seen three autopsies in the past and this was the most absurd, non-educational I have ever seen. They tried to make entertainment out of it and it just didn’t work.
The camera work was awful, the organ dissections were cut so short as to show next to nothing.
The examiner didn’t seem to know how to do a lecture and was talking as if he was making mental notes to himself.
The body had been plasticised to stop the rot and smells so that it would be more acceptable to the audience – sod them I say, if they want to see an autopsy let them see it in all its gory glory.
I have seen three autopsies in the past and this was the most absurd, non-educational I have ever seen. They tried to make entertainment out of it and it just didn’t work.
definantly agree with the point about the camera work, it seemed to me that the camera men were too scared to get too close.
From an ethical point of view I had no qualms with it, I mean theres plenty of programmes on TV with footage of people dieing (which I find far more horrific) and watch Discovery channel late at night and you will see proper surgery, which is far more blood and guts.
However what did worry me slightly was that the man was said to have for the past 20 years since loosing his job drank 2 bottles of wisky a day. Now that suggests to me he was a pretty bad alcoholic, a whino prehaps, could he have been pursuaded to give his body for a couple of bottles of drink? On that assumption I found it a bit unethical.
From an ethical point of view I had no qualms with it, I mean theres plenty of programmes on TV with footage of people dieing (which I find far more horrific) and watch Discovery channel late at night and you will see proper surgery, which is far more blood and guts.
However what did worry me slightly was that the man was said to have for the past 20 years since loosing his job drank 2 bottles of wisky a day. Now that suggests to me he was a pretty bad alcoholic, a whino prehaps, could he have been pursuaded to give his body for a couple of bottles of drink? On that assumption I found it a bit unethical.
Discovery channel late at night and you will see proper surgery, which is far more blood and guts
Ahh 'The Operation', usually it's not so bad, but eye operations always make my stomach turn.........euuuuuuuwwwwwww....
Don't think there should have been so much ho-har about this anyway. I think the establishment were more unhappy about the bodyworlds exhibition than the autopsy which is frankly just a publicity stunt to further publicise the show.
Not seen the show - anyone been?
I have been to several dozen of these, (fresh ones)
Once the first is over and the smell has been got used to (mortuary theatres have a strange scented smell to them), they are very interesting, particularly if the pathologist is of a mind to explain what is happening and how they arrive at the prognosis of the cause of death with demonstrations.
dead bodies are not like living ones. They look like shop manikins, they smell different and they are a very wrong colour for people.
Normally the body is prepared by the mortuary assistant who does most of the cutting and sawing before the Pathologist does his investigation unless it is a suspicious death where everyone including a home office Pathologist, who needs to be present, is, and from the very start.
Once the first is over and the smell has been got used to (mortuary theatres have a strange scented smell to them), they are very interesting, particularly if the pathologist is of a mind to explain what is happening and how they arrive at the prognosis of the cause of death with demonstrations.
dead bodies are not like living ones. They look like shop manikins, they smell different and they are a very wrong colour for people.
Normally the body is prepared by the mortuary assistant who does most of the cutting and sawing before the Pathologist does his investigation unless it is a suspicious death where everyone including a home office Pathologist, who needs to be present, is, and from the very start.
I only watched the first part. The fact that the body had been embalmed or something made it not seem real. The most bizarre thing for me was the audience aplause when he took out the internal organs.
Maybe they should have wired a red bulb into the guy's nose and made it like a big game of operation. The audience could have shouted out which part they wanted removing. I'm sure Sky are looking into it.
Maybe they should have wired a red bulb into the guy's nose and made it like a big game of operation. The audience could have shouted out which part they wanted removing. I'm sure Sky are looking into it.
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