Word: mercitron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make a difference?" he asks. "Any person who does this is going to have an image problem." That larger-than-death image grew with each story of his early experiments transfusing blood from cadavers to live patients, his paintings of comas and fevers, his bright-eyed enthusiasm for his "Mercitron" machines. With his deadly humor and his face stretched tight around his skull, he has become a walking advertisement for designer death...
Before long he found that his pathological interests precluded his being hired by any hospital. His ostracism, however, did leave him more time to rummage around flea markets, looking for old toys with small gears that he could use to build his inventions. His first "Mercitron," a precursor to the carbon-monoxide delivery contraption he provided to two more suicidal women last week, now sits in his lawyer's office. "He's very skilled in mechanical engineering," says Geoffrey Fieger. "He's very talented, in everything he builds...
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