“I once performed an autopsy on a deceased pedestrian who had been wearing 23 layers of clothing. It took us longer to undress him than to perform the autopsy.” —from the book Risking Life for Death, by Ryan Blumenthal (Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 2023). Here is a brief video of the author describing a different […]
Video of an autopsy of a snowman (via onetruemedia, HT Jennifer Ouellette): BUTT: For general background to this phenomenon, we recommend Dr Butt’s study: “Patterns of death among avalanche fatalities: a 21-year review,” Jeff Boyd, MBBS, Pascal Haegeli, PhD, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD MHSc, Michael Shuster, MD, John C. Butt, MD CM, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 […]