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It is the right answer, and he is as good as sold. What he buys is oblivion. Soon he is propped up in bed reading his own obituary. Having purchased a $30,000 first-class death (hotel fire) with a stand-in corpse from the organization's Cadaver Procurement...
Nonetheless, top honors of the show undeniably went to four Viennese men from something called the Institute for Direct Art. Black-shirted Hermann Nitsch gave a demonstration of his popular Blutorgie (blood orgy), in which he tore apart the cadaver of a freshly slain lamb, also gave a learned lecture...
he sews on a finger taken from a cadaver. In this way, he says, he has restored a remarkable degree of utility to the damaged hands of five patients.
At Riga's Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares...
There, Dr. Kalnberz severs one end of the cadaver-finger roll, opens the stub from which the patient lost a finger, joins the implanted bone with a metal pin to whatever natural finger bone the patient has left. He also stitches ligaments and tendons together. The patient's bandaged...