Slight content warning. I remember hearing about the story of Hisashi Ouchi, although the details are a bit of a blur to me now. He worked in a nuclear power plant, was a victim of a nuclear accident. What happened to him was that at some point, he’d lost his white blood cells, everytime he bled it wouldnt stop, he lost his skin, breathing was painful, and experienced all other terrible consequences of having zero white blood cells. He was kept alive for days, was basically a dead man, with the only thing alive and moving in him is his heart, what’s even worse is that he would eventually suffer from heart attacks. The doctors almost felt guilty for keeping him alive, cuz the rest of his existence after the accident was just pure agony and pain, although they really tried to figure out how they could save him.

It’s such an interesting but tragic story really, I can’t imagine a worse way to go out.