• Question: Do you think it would be cool if when people die they use lasers to chop them up into tiny cubes... or that just me?

    Asked by lottieelizabethmk to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      There is a new museum in London where somebody slices people’s brains into really thin strips and takes photographs of them (after they are dead). Perhaps he would be interested?

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I don’t fancy that myself.
      @Tom, I think that there was a prisoner a few years ago who left his whole body to science to be thinly sliced and photographed…

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  • Photo: Tom

    Tom commented on :

    @Tim: Absolutely! Go to any medical library and you will find this book. It’s called something like ‘the atlas of the human body’ and has 4 or five people who I believe were recruited from death row. The slices are a cm thick or more. I think the brain man is creating slices which are as thick as a human hair.

    I would definitely let him have a go at my brain – how fascinating for my great-grandchildren to be able to look at my brain!