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u/IronyGiant · 28 pointsr/morbidquestions

I recommend you read a book called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness".

It's the story of Hisashi Ouchi, a nuclear infastructure engineer that was exposed to extremely high dosage of radiation during a severe criticality accident, effectively destroying his DNA. He lived for 83 days, if you can call it living.

u/WhataHitSonWhataHit · 25 pointsr/Gore

As other commenters have noted, this is a picture of Hisashi Ouchi, one of the victims of the Tokaimura criticality accident which killed two people. The dogged efforts of the doctors to save his life, despite having very little medical precedent and history with which to work, are documented in great detail in the book A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness. As the of the book indicates, he died after 83 days, most of which were spent in coma. I purchased the book several years ago and, though the subject matter is sad, it is an absolutely fascinating account of exactly what happens when someone suffers lethal radiation exposure.

A reviewer of the book on Amazon summed up the situation as follows:

"The gentle and amiable patient did not realize for several days that he was what is termed a "walking ghost". While he appeared to be fine for a while, all of his cells were damaged and his death was certain. Pain medication to make him comfortable when symptoms arose would have ordinarily been the only intervention while awaiting the inevitable, but in his case the hospital staff and his family did not tell him that he received a lethal dose and maintained that fiction almost until the day he died. The doctors kept giving him transplants, transfusions, skin grafts, injections and cardiac massage -- a heroic effort overall -- to keep him alive until maybe something would actually help. Since severe radiation sickness is not common, these folks had no real idea what they could do and dealt with symptoms as they arose. And arose. And arose. The fact that Mr. Ouchi survived for months is nothing short of amazing, but perhaps honor and hope came at too high a cost: his incomprehensible CONSCIOUS suffering."

Here is the book on Amazon, if you are interested:

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

u/bajjz · 19 pointsr/Gore

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

Here's a book detailing the 83 days that doctors and nurses struugled to keep this man alive. Amazing book. They were pouring nuclear material from a steel bucket into a large metal container. The material went critical (bright blue flash/radiation). He did not turn into the hulk.

u/[deleted] · 12 pointsr/askscience

If you're interested in what radiation sickness does to a person, there have been cases of it and in particular this book describes the 83 day path to death one unlucky man experienced because of: "the direct cause of the accident was cited as the depositing of a uranyl nitrate solution--containing about 16.6 kg of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass--into a precipitation tank."

It's pretty ridiculous.

u/bloodyStoolCorn · 6 pointsr/worldnews

such an excellent, quick and uplifting read this book was http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

u/rocan91 · 3 pointsr/MorbidReality

This is also a great book that was written by a doctor who happened to be there during the 83 days. Very haunting to read the details in which he describes Ouchi.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1934287407/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=JFZESI2L2NUJ&coliid=IUK73YX4RJWDE

Edit: Just realized OP already listed the book. Sorry about that.

u/Daniel-Darkfire · 3 pointsr/Fallout

He was sure to die from being exposed to heavy doses of radioation, so they wanted to study the changes going through his body. There was a book written about it.

u/xvalusx · 2 pointsr/bestof

There's a book available through amazon about it. Interesting read.

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

u/JarJizzles · -1 pointsr/todayilearned

You're a fucking dumbass.

Within the first TWO TO FOUR MONTHS of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki,[1] with roughly HALF of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.

During the following MONTHS, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a U.S.

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

"fairly quick" eh? Shut the fuck up.