The Man Who Lived Inside a Dead Body, His Family Watched for 83 Days
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After an accident at work, a man was transported to the hospital for severe radiation poisoning. He recalled seeing a blue flash and throwing up immediately afterward. At first, medical staff believed he was fine; one even thought he would be well enough to leave the hospital. Despite his outward appearance, the man’s body was slowly changing- pushing doctors to apply a number of experimental procedures to save what was left of him. This is the story of Hisashi Ouchi, the most irradiated man in history, his family who couldn’t let him go, and his three month long battle for survival in a body falling apart at the seams. Let’s get into it!
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The doctors wanted to end his suffering, his family were the ones who wanted to keep him alive for as long as possible. People keep saying that the doctors were evil, but in real life they didn't want to continue anything further.
Exactly
The family is not evil either
They are just overly selfish just like a certain commentor said
Sometimes sentiments have its limit
@@lilyfhonazhel2675 yeah they just wanted their son to live it's not exactly being 'selfish' but still :''( they should've thought twice before doing whatever-
@@kasturikalita5357 Indeed
My statement is a bit wrong and exaggerated
But in the end such fate is too horrible to even imagine
@@lilyfhonazhel2675 yeahhh 😭
You can't blame nuclear energy for this. You can blame companies taking shortcuts.
Yeah whoever decided that should commit Seppuku.
@@mimszanadunstedt441 🗿
True but nuclear power is to vulnerable, just an earthquake can radiate a whole city within minutes. Not to mention how harmful it is to the environment (the process of it) better to use renewable energy like solar, or waves.
@@mimszanadunstedt441 umm I disagree & that mentality is why the Pacific ocean has radiation pouring into it still today.
@@antarcticmoongiant2691 Because the corrupt all commit seppuku? Thats why theres pollution? Idk man.
Death is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Families need to accept this.
@@curio78 ....speaking from experience NO, youre incredibly wrong right now. typically blood family will try to keep you alive for various reasons, i know this when a member of mine failed unaliving and became a vegetable. she wanted nothing more than to be gone but her blood family kept fighting to refuse it while my grandpa was willing to pull for her which ultimately happened through court. after the fact the family got EXTREMELY nasty with my grandpa whom was FKD from it and paid for everything and even had money stolen that was for the funeral by a member. and by paying for everything i literally mean everything including her blood family all (ALL OF THEM) to come down to see her.
@@curio78 now yes what i said doesnt apply everywhere but trust me, its fair more common than you think.
unaliving self is common around me unfortunately
@@oneautumnleaff2119 Your grandpa was probably the most rational one out of the entire group. The person became a vegetable and is just suffering. Your grandpa only wanted to put a stop to that. The rest of the family wanted to prolong it.
In nature. That man would have died wayyyyy before the worse part happened. Just because you can keep someone alive doesn't mean you should
Um nuclear disasters are not natural
@@Kat-zi2tb I think the commenter was referring to without human/medical intervention that prolonged both his life and suffering... Like what is even a life full of pain and suffering? That's not living, that's waiting until death comes.
i agree once his lungs started filling up with water he stopped breathing, wich would have stopped his heart he would have ben gone way way before his intestines started to break apart and his skin started to fall off , he had to endure being alive while literally falling apart he was for a brief moment a walking corpse
@@Kat-zi2tb And than some blind soul would say 2 me, that the nuclear energyes are "clean" , and "safe" , ... 😛
My exact thoughts
I think the worst part about his condition was something that wasn't mentioned in the video
By the end of his ordeal most of his muscle had not only died, but started to necrose and rot away, his heart was the only muscle that hadn't died
By the end he was just a dead body with a beating heart
So his skin was like…gray like zombies? 😥
Incredibly messed up, yet strangely poetic.
@@Casey-yb6be No, there are pics on the internet of what he looked like, flesh coloured. Remember from this video that he was weeping and oozing and then his skin started coming off completely, sot there was no skin left to be "grey."
he was basically a living dead at that point
@@Casey-yb6be There was no skin.
The story of this guy is so scary to me, especially him toward the end. Basically all his DNA was destroyed, and he was breaking down cell by cell leading to his body to fall apart, and for months he was in severe pain
It is beyond painfully sickening to imagine
@@beet0pp only thing scarier would be to live it... however I hope no one experiences that
And strangely we aren't taught more about radiation theory...
@Waldel Martell don't forget too, all his cells were irradiated big time
@Waldel Martell They tried that. He was so irradiated, his remaining cells were greatly radioactive.
ok but that “Mom…” and “I can’t take it anymore, I am not a guinea pig.” straight up shattered my soul into pieces.
As an ICU nurse I see families do this to their loved ones all the time. The body is shutting down and everything is failing. We tell them this. We show them the evidence and they still will allow their loved one to suffer. If you care how your last days, talk to you family about your wishes. Write a POLST or advanced directive. It is a legal document we must follow in the case that you can not make medical decisions for yourself. It will allow you to dictate your care and what is acceptable to you and it takes the pressure off your family to make those decisions for you. Sometimes even the most rational family members have trouble letting go.
I agree with you. I'm not a medical person, but I witnessed my mom dying slowly, and I could tell her organs were shutting down one by one, and she was suffering and in pain.
I think there's a misunderstanding due to the short length of this video. Wendigoon has a much longer and detailed one.
His family wasn't forcing the doctors to keep him alive. The doctors were actively trying him because they believed that if they controlled his symptom and his body started to recover, it would heal itself. In radiation sickness, you just need to keep the person alive until the body can get rid of and replace the damaged tissue. Once that's done, the body recovers. The doctor even invited an international team to aid in this.
The moment the doctor said they should not resuscitate, the family agreed. Remember, before this, the doctor didn't suggest a DNR, but rather were themselves trying to save him. This was the first and only such exposure and could've easily turned out in a different ending.
I’ve told my family that if I’m ever in a coma, and the doctors can’t definitively guarantee that I’ll be okay, just pull the plug. I do have great empathy for the people who are alive and aware in their comas and have to endure their families WANTING to let them go before their time, however.
why though
Your making me think to tell my family that. But some people have come back after decades amazingly, but I feel you.
@@i_am_gohan9232 That can also be traumatizing. It would essentially feel like time travel. I would rather the plug be pulled early (after everything else has been tried of course) than deal with the recourse of coming back after a decade or so.
i’d have them wait at least a few days
They didnt keep him alive just to make him suffer, it's unfortunate but he was a one of a kind case and the suffering he went through could help save thousands of lives in the future
I can say exactly how I would feel. My father was on life support after suffering a cardiac arrest due to blood loss from a ruptured spleen during what should have been a minor surgery. It took about two days and several tests for them to pretty much be able to say that he was most likely brain dead, his kidneys were starting to fail and he was on a ventilator. He would have to start dialysis right away and a feeding tube. We told them no, and took him off life support and let him pass. That is no way to live and there is no coming back from that. Of all the things in life I regret letting him go is not one of them.
That takes tremendous courage. I can't even imagine...
That must've been an incredibly difficult decision for you and your family. I'm sorry for your loss your father must've been a great guy and I can't imagine having to go through something like that. You were brave, and I commend you for that.
I'm sorry but if their answer was he is 'most likely' brain dead I'd still have to know before I turned it off... Your very brave. Apologies for your loss 🙏
@@jaysherriff3086 a little pro tip: doctors rarely say "definitely" when it comes to a patient's outcome because there are very rare times where statements of certainty leads to lawsuits, so if a doctor says someone is Most Likely brain dead it means that they can't find anymore brain activity and only the machines are keeping his body cells alive. That said, it's still the individual family's decision what they want to do and how they wish to let go.
@@jaysherriff3086 it's complicated, certainty may not be possible. You'd want to look into the research. OP didn't explain the entire situation to us so we just don't know. Anyway, thanks for sharing OP. That is a horrible decision to have to make and I'm glad you are satisfied with the choice you made. But I bet it's still not easy to deal with that
I feel bad for Ouchi. I hope he's having the most wonderful life up in heaven. Bless his soul, and thanks to him for being here, even if it was a long time ago.
Japanese doesn't have a concept of Heaven. It's just Spirit World or the Cycle of Samsara depending if they are Shinto or Buddhist
@@HelloItsMikkan oh lol
i just hope he's doing well wherever he is
@@letsplaykomikkidHe is in the ground mam. He is nowhere.
@@tamezzodiac2862 bruh
Hope he is having a good life in a body he got reborn in
The shock image is actually a burn victim who miraculously did end up surviving.
I thought this was going to be a person who literally hid in a body but this is far more depressing, but a great video
Same.
Yeah, I thought this guy a psychopath and wears skin of his victims
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Yeah I thought so too, this is so sad😪
May he RIP🖤
I have MS, a terminal illness. In short I'm dying slowly, so I know a bit about the subject. I know families want to hold onto their loved ones as long as possible, but there comes a point where you just have to stop. You're not doing it for their benefit anymore, you're doing it for your own, because you don't want to let go. This poor man's family should have let him go rather than force him to suffer. That's not love, that's denial, and he's the one who paid for it.
I’m so sorry to hear about your condition. Please take care
I also have MS. If you haven't yet, look at the new study just come out of Stanford.
Praying you live 🙏
My mom has MS. She follows the Wahls Protocol, a nutrition plan developed by a doctor with MS. Between that and her prescription she doesn't have any problems except when she cheats and eats the wrong stuff. You might want to check it out.
I really hope your doing better I’m sorry to hear, try to find as much medication as you can to prevent this
When you hear "radiation" and "blue flash" in the same sentence... it's about to go down.
What a tragic story, even more because this accident could've been prevented. No one knows for sure, but it seems like this man was the person who suffered the most painful and slowest death a human being ever experienced. Rest in peace, Ouchi.
Guys, it’s a Cultural difference. I’m Asian and I understand, family ties are strong in a lot of our cultures. The family may have been in denial, and clung into any type of hope. The family IS NOT SADISTIC. They are simply human. Do not blame the family, do not blame the medical staff, blame the preventive measures that have been ignored, no human should go through this pain.
Yeah man, I get that, I really do, but cmon, our own selfish desires can’t trump what we see our loved ones going through with pain. He was literally dead clinging by a thread 🪡.
this is well said. they were simply being human and the real thing we should be mad at is the safety measures that were unfortunately ignored.
He was still conscious for most of the ordeal, I think he would've made it clear if he didn't want to continue. He fought so hard and for so long because he loved his family and wanted to give them every last minute with them that he could, at least, that's how it seems to me.
This was also one of the first times someone got irradiated like this. Literally noone knew for sure on anything.
@@i_am_gohan9232 logic isn’t some that mourning families often concern themselves with
This might come off as insensitive, but it pains me so much how his body was breaking apart before their own eyes and his family still told him to hold on. I only learned a bit of biology and my opinion might be wrong, but his body had already come to the point of beyond reparable when all implants they did failed. The medical team handling him is so strong to come that far, honestly.
I agree with this. Not to be insensitive again or sound like I ‘understand’ but if I was in such extruciating pain I don’t think I’d want to live in that condition.
His body was dead the second he got radiated.
Not even that, literally the moment that happened his DNA was broken apart. If you only have DNA in one part it doesn't allow you to replace all the rest. You would need a full body transplant and that isn't a joke.
completely agree with you. he did say "i don't want this anymore" or sth when he could still talk and they still pushed on him the entire "hang in there" bs so selfishly. sometimes people are unconsciously awful. sometimes i think perhaps our tendency to cling on to life is what makes us inherently evil.
@@lililkalulukalilalilalulal1438 When did he say “I don’t want this”? As far as I can tell, he never said such thing.
I feel terribly for this man and his family. He suffered so much and for so long. His family obviously loved him very much seeing that they came to visit him daily and tried everything in hopes to bring him back from donating blood to folding 10 Thousand Cranes. If they knew there was absolutely no chance that he could survive I'm sure they would let him go a lot earlier to end his suffering.
The doctors told the family multiple times that there wasn’t any hope but the family kept wanting to continue treatment
@@danissdiary nope that was ouchi himself, he continued it for his family. brew is a content farm, don't trust everything they say.
Idk, I think it at least provides documentation on what this does. Nothing is really a waste when it comes to things like this.
Ridiculous that his family kept him alive like that
They had hopes, you should really put yourself in their position to know how they really felt seeing him.
@@matsuri6945 imagine leaving your son in this condition, to literally rot alive and be in so much pain every day, just because you have a hope where there's none.
If they truly loved him, they wouldn't let him suffer from all of this. Imagine how HE felt during those days.
@@scherwood3895 How would you think their mind would be so rational seeing him in that state, they didn't think it would turn out like that as they have a strong belief that he would get better.
@@matsuri6945 yes! And every family has a right to not give up, you are so right!
@@yfa6244 Not to mention he himself also thinks he'd get better soon by the treatment of the doctors.
As soon as he said “ the most irradiated man in history“ I knew who he was talking about. It wasn’t a 3 month long battle for survival it was an agonizing 3 month wait with every second wishing it was his last. He was in pain, they experimented on him. There is no way he wanted to be here.
He wanted to stay alive
@@cherrybombrose3532 with his skin melting and crying out blood? I don’t think so. It was his family that wanted him to stay alive.
@@ricksanchez3011 He literally was accepting all types of things they were offering to help until he went unconscious (at that point it was only days until his death)
@@cherrybombrose3532 after a week he told the doctors “I can’t take it anymore, I am not a Guinea pig”
@@ricksanchez3011 yeah, but they never got an official DNR order until they consulted the family iirc, which meant by law they had to keep him alive or they could face lawsuits if he died in their hands. (which is also why they had to perform CPR to start his heart several times near the end, no DNR)
as a physician, i really appreciate your take on this. so many versions of this story blame the doctors, making it sound like they were purposefully experimenting on the man. this is one of the few to give their side of the story, which is painfully relatable to me. although I've never taken care of someone with such a rare and devastating condition, i totally get what it's like when there really are no good answers, but you're still trying your damnedest to help your patient. i also get how emotionally tough it is for doctors to keep going because the family won't let go -- and how hard it is for families to let go of a loved one dying too soon.
While in nursing school, they try to prepare you for this. We play out scenarios with student doctors, paramedics...etc. One question that always came up was, when is enough is enough? No one really had an answer.
I think the doctors did their best. Ouchi lived far longer than his body should have been able to. The only people to blame are the people who had the workers bypass the safety measures for mixing the uranium. They should have been forced to sit where they could see everything that happened to Ouchi. That would be the most fitting punishment for basically murdering him.
I feel bad for the doctor and nurses though. After a while there would be doubts about the ethicality of keeping him alive.
P.s. I know that "ethicality" is probably the wrong word, or not a real word, but couldn't think of a better one after the all nighter I just pulled.
People don’t understand, that if you go to a hospital it’s because at that point you really need to see a professional and it’s the professional’s job to find what the problem is and how to solve it, if it’s found that none of the usual is working then experimental/trial options are a last option because all else has failed and to give the patient and their family the option that is available, but it’s up to the patient and their family/proxy what they decide to do from there, so if they are saying do whatever you can to save him/her then the doctor will do their best to find the solution or at least alleviate the pain
Plus this is a work safety violation anyways
@@NIkki-ox1ej Yeap. There are a lot of lawsuits where the hospital wanted to allow the patient to pass away but the family refusing and getting a court order.
CPR? Restarting it was completely cruel
His family wanted to save him, the doctors wanted to save him, but he was already dead, a living corpse.
If someone is interested to know more about the case I recommend the book: A slow death: 83 Days of radiation sickness. It describes the case in even more detail and I think as horrible as the case is, it was interesting to hear the thoughts of the doctors and how the physical changes happened day by day.
I would, but I don’t think I could finish it. I studied acute radiation sickness when I was younger and I just… ugh. Such a terrible death shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Interesting? Then is it safe to assume the doctors forced the man to stay alive for the sake of their own 'learning experience'. They literally tortured this man.
@@misakimei3102 No, doctors have to take hippocratic oath and it's really not their place to say when someone has to "go", but to try their best to keep them alive, the family also didn't want to let Ouchi go. Who knows, maybe the doctors really thought they were going to figure out a cure and help Ouchi recover or then they just wanted to try it all out. Nobody but they know.
Doctors know that their is absolutely no cure for genetic problems and mutation in the human body. Ever heard of a down syndrome patient waking up one day and be completely normal? The medical field ends where dna problems start and people need to accept that for now until a cure is actually found and not with experimenting on people
@@misakimei3102 Not intentionally. They gave the 'do not resusitate ' order.
Hearing his son try to encourage him, and his wife crying for the first time nearly made me cry. This whole story is heartbreaking. If I was in their shoes I wouldn't want whoever to suffer, but I wouldn't want to just lose them either.
Crybaby nobody cares about this man anymore.
@@Mario87456 wow you're so cool and edgy
@@ApatheticallyPleasing That’s not my intent besides you could say he was doomed to suffer this since his last name was Ouchi am I right?
@@Mario87456 the good ol internet troll lol . Overweight partially bald and living in his mom’s basement 😂
I agree. They should’ve let him go rather than him suffering so much. Can’t believe this. I would for sure let someone i love go forever rather than watching them suffer so badly.
This was extremely painful RIP man 😢
Yeah, some fates are worse than death. It’s so sad. I’d rather they just let me go.
My roommate was a children's ER nurse. She told me about how the parent's of a child, of a strict religion that was against pulling life support, would not let their child go when he was already dying... His body was decomposing after a while and the nurses would have to sponge bathe his decaying flesh over the weeks he was there, technically "alive" using life support, as in it kept his heart beating but he was essentially deceased. At one point his face was decaying so badly the eye left the socket.... Just like melted out and they had to just place it back in the orbital and wash his face like this was all perfectly normal and fine.
This can't be good. Not even for the nurses. There is a lot to handle but that.... That's just horrifying and unpleasant for everyone. Especially the poor child omfg!
Ppl like that* families* should be put in prison for torture
@@sarapatch616 They enforced religious beliefs on their child and made him suffer it’s so sad
It sounds like he was brain dead. In that case, he would be all the way dead, not feeling or thinking or reversible. It’s just his heart beating electronically. I’m sure he didn’t suffer
is the child now dead? i mean like the family actually just let him go? hearing this, I wouldn't be able to see how horrible it is in real life
The doctor that oversaw Ouchi actually tried multiple times to convince his family that it was a lost cause. This often gets mixed up between the medical team and the family.
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This explanation is MILES better than that so called best story teller in the universe Mr Ballen that literally lied about this whole incident to make his story more dramatic , he legit made it as if the guy was a lab rat or something , as if the Japanese goverment intentionally want to torture the guy 💀 I guess that’s what happen when you invest too much of your life in the military , your brain and mind literally get poisoned by the US goverment . My guy tried his hardest to villainify the doctors and the hospital staffs , as if all their work were specifically done just to dissect him , just like all of his BS stories , he make 90% of sh**t up to make everything seems dramatic , kinda like he knew every detail to the story saying “then he look to the left and think this and that , then he look the right and then up and then down , and then he thought about his 15 years old self eating candy while looking the right side” all that BS thing he obviously made the fk up
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Wendigoon has a really good, thorough video on this topic. It put it in perspective that it wasn’t the doctors’ fault or the family’s fault. They really had high hopes of saving him. Plus, he wanted to keep going for his wife and child.
83 days!
So were the doctors giving him high hopes?
After some time had passed I know the hopes were failing to keep him from acknowledging the reality of the situation.
In his mind he probably had the 'responsibility of survival' reminding him that it is a responsibility. The Japanese is a responsible crowd, naturally. Working in that function (☢️) he must have surpassed even the typical very responsible Japanese, in maintaining a responsible disposition.
Nah...what's F up is that when he finally gave up and wanted it to stop. They didn't. That's the problem
@@ms.chuisin7727 Stop villainizing this family, the doctors and his family have been so stigmatized by people who say or act like he was “experimented on” did you know that his family folded thousands of papercranes for him? It was because folding a thousand papercranes is believed to grant a wish, why aren’t you angry at the people that made these unsafe conditions? His family and the doctors aren’t the “bad guys” in this case. Please do your research before being horribly disrespectful.
wendigoon put a lot of emphasis on empathy and not demonizing either the family or the medical team. i admire him a lot for that.
That poor mother, she was trying to stay strong for both her son and him, but hearing him say that with hope and knowing there wasn't any, must've been so painful. As a mother and a wife I just couldn't imagine being in that kind of situation.
I remember one time my mom read a similar story, and straight up told me that if she ends up in a condition where she’s only “living” by technicality, with no quality or dignity, she would rather be unplugged than to suffer and cause suffering.
People say these kinds of things but you never know how you’ll actually feel. My mom always said if she ever got cancer she didn’t want chemo and just wanted to enjoy her time left. Then she *actually* got stage 4 cancer. And frantically started chemo as fast as she possibly could.. everything she thought she wanted flew right out the window.. nobody can anticipate that kind of thing
People are different. Some want to fight.
@@Spcefairy same thing but with my dad. And he wanted to fight. Some family wanted to pull the cord and he was bedridden and told he couldn’t taste talk or walk again. He made a miracle though, a week after that, and was able to talk, walk, wipe his bike and come home with us for some weeks before it went down again. Even still. Even when he got another cancer thru this, he verbalized through notes / etc that he wanted to fight. It hurt but didn’t. It felt good but sad and selfish. But it felt good cus it was for HIM. There shouldn’t be a right or wrong answer to these situations, just according to what the family or victim’s wishes are. It’s hard entirely.
@rosesplinter her point was that she as a human being, brain deAD or not- chose to want to fight. Her moms case was valid YoUrE only using the context for the case of Ouichi, in the video. And it’s rudely insensitive. Her mom knew the severity, and had the desire to live for the possible time / limited time she had. That’s not the same thing dude …
@@iTacolot What
I saw another video on this case a couple weeks ago. It's honestly surprising that he lived that long, to be honest. I think most people would've been dead long before then, but this man was unfortunate enough to live and suffer for that long.
Yes. This is both horrible and fascinating.
Deleting your DNA is horrible.
@Rulya קארן Mórrigan im sure the doctors didnt mean to make him suffer like that, they just tried what they can to save him but then he died cause theres no cure for radiation
@Rulya קארן Mórrigan Maybe a bit of curiosity was involved but it’s a doctor’s job to save lives, or at least try to. Doctors cannot euthanize. I believed they tried their best
@Rulya קארן Mórrigan Everyone suffers terribly. It's called existence. Get over it.
Dying a hard slow death , I am certain that the hospital could have offered palliative care rather than just constantly transfusions and invasive tests. A morphine Drip intravenous enough to stop a horse would have been the kind thing considering that he was DOA from the 16 sievert dose.
You know when you last commented about letting Ouchi’s family let him pass earlier than prolonging his suffering, I thought the same too. But you mentioned that, if it were our own family member in that situation scenario that struck me hard.
My mom contracted Covid last year, 13 days she felt effects from mild to mid and she fought the worst for 10 agonising days. She wasn’t able to speak and she coughed a lot. Just like Ouchi’s family we wanted her to heal and come back to us.
Being in that same situation, I would never ever blame the family because I seriously wished my mom to return to me too. But, if it were prolonged for such a long time and no point of recovery, I’d prefer a relief rather than an agonising life.
Omg … I hope my family never keeps me alive if I ended up like this. I would want to go home.
Edit: I’m happy that he now rests in peace.
People might disagree with me but I feel it might have been easier for him to have been let go. Going through something like that is absolutely terrible.
Agreed. He didn't deserve to go through what his family put him through. I know they meant well but they needed to let go
I agree. But I understand the family's selfish wish. It's not easy to lose someone you love, it took every part of you just to let them go. But if keeping them only makes them suffer, you'll have to let them go, bcs the act of letting go of someone you love just shows how much you love that person.
I totally agree his family let him suffer for too long, so sad☹️
@@yarr0 wasn't really the hospital's fault. His family wanted him alive so the hospital had to keep him alive as long as they could.
dude, i’m not saying anything about your opinion at all, but don’t use the term “put down” to refer to a human being 🤣. it’s a term you use to talk about animals, not people with lives and families and emotions. it sounds insensitive. just saying!
"He was given narcotics, but he looked like he was still in pain."
When your veins have as much holes as sieves have, narcotics will definetly not work anymore. As far as i know, same thing happened to chernobyl workers.
Radiation is like fire. It can be good but only when controlled. I wish humans never been as careless as they are right now, we might have had no chernobyl incident, the fukushima incident, and this one.
Nuclear is the least harmful source of producing energy we have.
@@princessbuttercup8954 true
@@princessbuttercup8954 2 edged sword like basically everything else in this planet.
@@princessbuttercup8954 "least harmful"?! IT'S DONE THE MOST HARM TO PEOPLE AND THE PLANET MORE THAN ANY OTHER POWER SOURCE.
@@trixiebewitched This is blatantly false. Watch “Worst Nuclear Disasters in History” by Kurzgesagt and you’ll learn why
You're videos are so high quality. As someone with a horrible attention span who literally looks for other videos to watch as soon as one starts, it's a good sign when the first few seconds of your videos are so captivating that I sit through and watch the entire video at the edge of my seat... Every. Single. Video. Seriously, awesome job with the production and storytelling. You honestly deserve more subsscribers.
They’re animated
wow this is the first video from you guys that has actually made me cry
This has got to be the worst way I've ever heard of anyone dying. I'd rather be lit up in one of those bronze bull torture devices. RIP Ouchi, he seems like he was a good man, and I hope his family has found peace after all of this.
Right, ud suffer but not nearly as long as Ouchi did
@synergy I wish this wasn’t funny
@synergy you heartless being you made me laugh
what happen i dont want to see vid?
Rabies is a horrible way to go also
If I'm being honest, it was a good thing he passed in the end. The amount of pure suffering he had been in would be unfathomable to the average person and I couldn't bear to see someone go through that. May he find peace in a better place...
hollow knight pfp moment :0
I agree.
The poor guy lived for too much considering that he would have died regardless
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@@notprisanymore oh your also calling out hollow knight profiles did I start a trend?
So many people caring for elderly family choose to have them resuscitated against the urging of care nurses. Many of the people who've experienced this say death felt peaceful, but being brought back was the most painful thing they'd ever felt.
I can't imagine feeling that while also feeling every cell in your body slowly disintegrating. Just absolutely awful. Please consider that if you're ever asked to make that choice for an elderly loved one - sometimes, enough is enough. Life was only meant to be so long.
Legalize euthanasia!
Thank you for telling the real story. So many other videos on this subject paint the medical staff as evil sadists who saw him as a guinea pig for human experiments.
the doctors didnt want to do it the family was the one who wanted to keep them alive
@TheElectriCat987 that's also not true. Both people wanted to keep him alive because the treatment to radiation sickness is to keep the person alive until the body can start to recover.
The doctors were following the best guidelines of the time, keep the person alive until they recover.
The one to blame is the work force who prioritized speed over safety, I would have sued because there’s no way those adjustments passed safety regulations. My heart goes out to the entire family 💜
What safety regulations?
@@SheetGhostPenguin did you not watch the video? it says at the beginning that oushi's employers were ignoring safety regulations from their higher-ups
The higher ups should have been sent to jail for life.
Yea and they hadn’t even been approved by the officials, who weren’t even informed by this. If they would’ve brought this up to them they would have definitely won the case I think.
Yeah but we must remember, this is in Japan. I know nothing about how their justice system works, but seeing as they didn't do anything legally, there was probably a reason. In the US the family would have sued without hesitation no matter the cost.
After a week of treatment, Ouchi told the doctors “I can’t take it anymore[…]. I am not a guinea pig.” For some reason, his family was allowed to go against Ouchi’s wishes to be let go.
In medical if pateint family want to continue the treatment then they can. With out the patient will.
It’s always the family. I am a medical-based speech therapist and families will hold on and hold on. It’s… I don’t even know. The laws are just tough to navigate. Hospitals get sued for not trying hard enough to keep people alive and this then has the effect of us being essentially forced to do everything possible to keep people alive, even when it seems like torture. I honestly don’t know the solution.
@@offsewingdragons9142 I 100% agree, but sadly, as I said, families just do not want to let go. I see it over and over and it breaks my heart. I once had a patient who was 18 yo on respiratory, feeding life support since she was a just a child. Her heart pumped on its own. She didn’t open her eyes. She didn’t respond to touch. The feeding tube and the ventilator keeping her alive for years because family wouldn’t let her go.
Oh and the. There are people in similar conditions who are wards of the state and there isn’t anyone truly assigned to sign off on “pulling the plug”
It’s just complicated. And yikes
The family acts upon their emotions way more than the patients do, it's so frustrating.
@Sedona Rose This is why euthanasia needs to be legal in such situations. Nobody should be forced to suffer a fate worse than death.
Thank you for telling the story how it is, so many youtubers, just parrot other youtubers, that make up random sensationalized stories, claiming doctors experimented on him, or where somehow cruel. when those doctors, and nurses fought hard alongside Acouchi , to do everything they could to save him, and give him some quality of life.
know that even if they could not save him, his struggle may end up helping others.
I love how everyone is pointing blame at the family or doctors… uhhh what about his job that blatantly went against safety procedures?!?!?!?!
I know its not the best way to prove it, but this really proves once more that how resilient and strong human body is. 83 days in such conditions is not a joke.
It is a joke. You have no ability to will yourself dead. You must suffer at the hands of others.
Well machines and medicine did also play a major role if I payed attention well enough
More like how stubborn his family and doctors have been, the poor guy suffered in vain.
Eh not really it shows how medical technology can keep someone alive cuz he’d been dead way before 83 days without that
Strong? If it wasn't for the machines and the medicine he would have died much sooner. He probably would have preferred that.
If I'm suffering that badly, please just end it please. Don't make me suffer like Aouchi.
RIP. :(
ouchi
@@robthesnakeguy4618 Nooooooo
Time to get uranium to your home then
@@hiro9209 are you insane?
@@Aarnyx at this point idk
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I noticed how the absorption of the water formed an image of a skull...
Sadness...
This is heartbreaking, I'm shocked he lasted that long with 17 times more radiation than normally survivable.
As usual, management messed with the rules set down for worker safety. It seems no matter where you go, incompetent management can always be found. Could hardly believe it happened in a nuclear facility. Work it right, don't work it fast.
and they almost always get the golden parachute.
Safety regulations are written in blood.
@@enriquekahn9405 yup
My thoughts exactly! This tragedy could have been avoided if management hadn't cut corners 😔
some people dont know how much pain they can experience. Ouchi's family is an example of this
My history teacher once said, humanities ability to destroy has always been greater than its ability to heal.
Your history teacher sounds like a miserable individual
As a nurse I can feel how hard it must have been for the team to keep going with the treatments when it became obvious they were flirting with therapeutic obstinacy. We all have one particular case of a patient we tried to save by all means and finally lost in the end. This poor man must have suffered a lot, may he rest in peace.
This case questions medical ethics. Where should we drawn the line and say time to let the patient go? I don't have an answer.
Thanks for your expertise and service, it must be pretty rough at times.
@@gorillaau there is no line. it is a choice made by the family. if the family does not allow a DNR, the doctors must keep the patient alive until it is no longer possible. even if they're suffering. doctors also cannot "assist s***ide", where the patient would be asking to be let go themselves.
@@jednrrp Isn't there the do no harm clause. Having patient in pain for days on end, DNA destroyed, with tissue falling apart is not prolong the possibility of life, but only the agony.
@@gorillaau When the patient says so. And he didn't. He was conscious and able to give a DNR. He did not
@@jednrrp It's a choice made by the family if the patient has no advanced directive (instructions for what they want should something terrible happen) or is *not conscious* to give direction
You are forgetting Ouchi was conscious and able to report on his condition. If he said do not revive me, that would always take priority over what his family wanted. He didn't though. Stop blaming the poor man's family, they did nothing but hope and pray for the best and fold 10,000 paper cranes hoping we would stay alive. I swear some people have no empathy
I can't imagine how long those 80+ days must have been. Incredible resilience but also painful to know that he suffered for so long. The poor man.
He wouldn't feel a thing, the body is shutting down keeping him alive, he would awake unaware what is happening.
@@luckydannumber2 but mentally? He felt everything
@@luckydannumber2are you joking? He definitely felt it
This story is incredibly tragic. A lot of people blame the doctors or family for trying to keep him alive, but if your loved one was hospitalized with a slim, but still possible, chance of recovery would you really pull the plug? And even the doctors held onto hope for as long as he had a chance.
Uh, yes. Coming from someone who fully supported and made this decision before, yes. Yes. And yes. Again. If someone doesn't want to suffer in their death, they shouldn't just because of the selfishness of others.
honestly yess, if the sick person expressed the want to end it because of pain their loved one should listen,esp if his condition is not improving while he is in so much pain, yes you love that person if i was in that situation id be bawling but id respect their wishes because its their own body and he is the one hurting to the point its unbearable not you , to keep it going on for a longtime thats torture ,not listening to his wishes i find it selfish, its all about the patient here
Would you rather to see your loved one suffer for 80 days out of love?
We are not dealing with a few days or a few hours. This is weeks, months. Even a few days would be too much in my opinion, unless the medical team can suppress the agony and suffering enough, until full recovery.
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Keeping Ouchi alive that long definitely only increased his suffering. But I don't think anyone was really to blame for it -- it was the largest radiation exposure seen yet, and the doctors seemed to think there was some chance of recovery even if today we'd know such an intense full-body exposure is pretty much hopeless.
I've always been a proponent of nuclear power. While the usual sustainable power sources like solar, wind, hydro and geothermal are safer, I don't see them providing enough energy reliably enough to get us off fossil fuels before they run out or mess up the climate way worse than it already is. I think nuclear is the stepping stone we need right now, and that between modern reactor design, strictly followed safety procedures, multiple failsafes and automation, nuclear can be made safe enough.
I blame the family. It’s not the doctor’s fault. My family had to make a similar decision with my grandpa. He fractured his neck and was in agonizing pain. Yet he still wanted to leave because he was a strong independent man. They were going to put him in hospes and he would’ve eventually passed but when they put him off the respirator he died. We had to make a similar decision this family did but we chose to let him go.
Nuclear energy is good but knowing it's destructive accidents, someone not concerned by the bottom line ( some government encouraging safety issue report or third party) should be closely involved in the bottom level regulating safety, too many accidents are caused by efficiency/cost vs safety procedures conflict.
@@tongjordon9116 the problem with nuclear power is humans are idiots
Nuclear energy is finite, costly and devastating. We have so many better alternatives that have better out puts of energy that it's not even comparable.
@@kaiseremotion854 this is honestly the correct answer. The US Navy runs nuclear reactors perfectly fine, and it's because the US military is exceptional at processes. Civilian power plants don't have that same structure.
The article was well done, especially considering how much cruelly false reporting there is on this story. The story of Ouchi has been horribly abused by internet posters
Sometimes the internet reminds me of how some people have zero empathy for others
I remember when i thought this story is about a japanese guy who is experimented and said "im not a guenia pig" as his last breath.
It's kinda comforting to know that there are people who try to help the guy
Excellent just what I was looking for, very well explained. The ability to take complex information and break it down to a more simplistic form is a great skill to have . subscribed
That’s essentially the main sign of true understanding. Knowing a subject so well you can explain it to anyone, regardless of age or upbringing.
I feel sad for the family, I wish the doctors stopped when the patient himself want to give up.
switch it around, the doctors told them to let go but his family pressed them to keep him alive
They couldn’t because the family wouldn’t let him
What sad for family..? They are basically the one who kept him alive while the doctors convinced them to finish his suffering multiple times
@x0x imagine your families love keeping you suffering for so long, it's like it's selfishness but at the same way not exactly
Im glad that FINALLY someone covered this story from a fact checked and logical stand point. In other vids I've seen, you'd think the doctors were monsters and enjoying treating this poor man like a science experiment. Others make the family sound like monsters for not letting docs pull the plug sooner.
You did a great job being sensitive, scientific, and respectful in this vid 👍
The family didn’t know what was left of him. And he doctors wouldn’t give up, not considering the suffering at all. Ignorance is the word.
Maybe the concept wasn’t established in Japan yet at all. Since they also eat live octopus along other atrocities.
@@Etienne_H And let's not even get started on their... Let's say interest in teenage RPG characters...
@@Etienne_H Your last 2 sentences scream ethnocentrism.
@@i5879 And? Ethnocentrism is good
@@v5k456jh3 I’m sorry? What? I don’t think you quite understand what ethnocentrism means.. or at least i hope you don’t. 😭
i really appreciate the human aspect to this video, the family reactions, the nurses, and his words in his last days, most of the media i’ve seen about this story is just the science of his condition so it’s really nice to get a little more
One of the videos i can’t finish because it’s so hard to take in all this. Working safety is no joke, nothing should be sacrificed for time and efficiency in such a dangerous job.
Absolutely inhumane. As healthcare professionals, it was the medical team's responsibility to advocate on the patient's behalf. It was callous of them to prolong this man's suffering, even if it was the family's wishes.
I understand what they were trying to do... but my heart aches for that poor man suffering all that time. Part of me wished they would have let him go- as hard as it is to accept by the family and doctors... but the other part of me can appreciate what the doctors were trying to do in the name of human safety and medical advancement. I can only imagine the sheer horror his family was going through seeing him like that... my heart goes out to them.
I think they really did have hope and that's why they did it, not only to test technology. They not only kept him alive, but found so many alternatives to help his body regenerate. It was just that he was too injured to heal, and when they had exhausted all their options, they decided to talk to the family about giving up. It's heart breaking, but perhaps he wanted to live through the pain to see them too
@@hyukleberry5567 of course! I couldn't agree more! You must have hope in cases like this. If they didn't, then it all was purely meaningless torture.
some info on the photo that keeps getting circulated as ouchi: its actually a photo from the burn ward of the shriners childrens hospital in texas, the person in said photo is a 16 year old boy who was caught in a house fire. he ultimately survived and made a rather successful recovery
That's hectic! Looks so brutal and fatal. What's the name of the boy?
hi twin
That they kept him alive so long was amazing
this was a good way to start my day, cheers mate.
The realistic drawings are so stunning, Whoever drew that is really talented! As always love the content, this was such an interesting case
i agree! i love monochromatic art
fr!! finally they have noses
Ikr they went up in quality so far compared to where they started
I'd love to see a graphic novel or comic series in this style.
not drew, brew
yes i know
“Safety systems work if we use them” very well said. Truly, incompetence kills especially if you are in-charge of safety.
A very well thought out and narrated video...the video was really sad but really informative
This is a little spoiler but is not that big
Chernobyl workers received 6 sieverts and died in one month
This man received 17 SIEVERTS, and survived 83 days
Its not impressive, that was pure agony for him
It IS impressive. This man was so hardy and clinged to life so hard that he survived almost 3 times as long with almost 3 times the dose. Rest In Peace Ouichi
@@supermasterfighter he survived more because:
1-technology advances and better treatments
2-because his family woulndt let him go
@@tinchorb1340 did you even watch the video? That’s not what happened
@@es0x his family didn't want him to give up, and life support was the only reason he lived through the ends of his life. His heart stopped twice for God's sake. Nothing he said was wrong.
@@ihavenonamestilldonthaveon8970 his heart stopped 3 times in one day, so it’s safe to assume that it stopped probably a couple more times than that, not including the one that ended his life
I started to cry when I heard how many cranes his wife made. That broke me.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s a Japanese tradition, where if you fold 1000 cranes, you’ll get a wish granted.
@@tryingtoart264 Yes, there is a children's book also called 1,000 paper cranes that's about a young girl who developed cancer after living in Hiroshima. She developed it in like 1953 because of how long the radiation impact Ed the area and residents
Same honestly. I can't imagine how hard it must have been for his family, and himself as well. Being put through all this for close to 3 months, it's heartbreaking.
@@tryingtoart264 yeah, the tradition says that 1000 folded cranes would grant either a wish or a recovery from an illness (both would work either way), and she made almost 10,000 cranes
She made enough cranes to make nine wishes if not ten
it wasn't only his wife, it was his entire family, some of the medical staff and even other patient from the unit.
I am crying this is horrible. Nobody deserves this. Nobody. I am so sad to know he suffered so much for so long, dear god. May he rest in peace
This is so sad. The video was so well done.
My grandpa got sick a week before my high school graduation and died from cancer a few weeks after. It was all because of the old nuclear power plants lack of safety. This story makes me emotional and angry, but if we can improve safety maybe I can get over my feelings.
They have been made much more safe since then. In fact, new technologies have allowed us to make nuclear power plants that won't ever melt down.
It is the answer to climate change.
Use your feelings to help fuel change and help people with similar problems :)
Is it certain the cancer was from nuclear radiation?
Just curious, your story is very sad.
@@JACKHARRINGTON
I believe so, given my nana's wording of the situation and things the doctors said. He used to crawl into small spaces and things like that he probably shouldn't have. Had a cancer, got treatment, was good. Then came back a year later and this time a tumor grew from a golf ball to a coconut size in a month and strangled his intestines. She receives his pension money plus more to this day 3 years later.
The worst part about these tales is that Nuclear energy is one of the least deadly sources out there. It's safer that wind, solar, coal etc. Yet the horrible tales of radiation poisoning don't assist with lowering mortality of all energy sources.
They forgot to mention how he cried and begged for death. Even saying "I am not an experiment". They kept him alive longer than he had the will to live.
After he was intubated though, he can’t talk, and his family officially calls the shots.
This was fascinating, thank you.
this is one of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard...
Agreed.
I wish I had medical staff like this help my dad. The staff at the hospital seemed like they were doing the bare minimum to save my dads life. They treated him as just another lost cause. I promise if my dad was in an other hospital he would still be alive. I know this because his condition wasn’t bad at all. Me and my mom hold that against forever. Especially my mom
I’m so sorry this happened to you. It happened to my husband’s dad too. :(
I’m so sorry you had to go through this. There is so much neglect in many hospitals these days. And it’s not fair.
I know what your talking about. This happened to my dad too
I understand where you're coming from, same thing happened to my dad, fact of the matter is most of them just don't care, but I think this man is a different case , there was nothing they could do but prolong his suffering, he was already dead.
I had the same experience with my grandfather. When he was transferred to another hospital for a while he actually made some progress, but when he went back to the first hospital, his condition worsened. He was also treated as a lost cause, and a nuisance. It was never supposed to be this way. I’m sorry you had to go through the same thing. It’s terrible.
"The human body is perhaps the most complex machine on Earth"
-The human brain
*insert obama putting a medal on obama*
Brain named itself
"The human brain is perhaps the most complex thing we have encountered in our Universe"
-The human brain
Every morning I wake up, it's there.
- The Human Brain 🧠
When I was a young nurse I cared for dying AIDS patients. It was heartbreaking. They would be suffering from so many infections as the end drew near. God bless their souls. I'll never forget them.
You have a pretty smart community, Brew. Not the kindest to newcomers, but you guys are funny and (mostly) knowledgeable. Anyway, do any of you know who that guy in the picture people claim is Ouchi actually is? I've been searching, but I can't find anything. Every place says it's him, but it really doesn't match up considering the leg gone along with other salient details.
Read the story instead of watching the video
Explains the amputations
Ah, yes. The Tokai Nuclear Incident. I remember hearing about this some years ago.
I remember this guy as “The man whose DNA melted”
I read the book about this case. The medical team wanted to do an endoscopy to see what was going on with his intestines- but the scope set up was in a different area of the hospital. they *unplugged him from his life support* to go scope him, and without everything he was plugged into keeping him alive he passed away, finally.
given how he was apparently begging for death but they had to keep him alive because of the wishes of his family...I'm wondering if that "oops" was actually an act of mercy on the medical team's part
This was definitely not an accident. It was on purpose, most likely Ouchi's own request.
That we actually an act of mercy. He problably finally felt peace. Rip angel.
I could have sworn in the book about him, he died during cardiac arrest. He'd already gone into it once and they were barely able to bring him back the first time and asked his family to sign the DNR. They did and the next time he went into cardiac arrest, they let him go.
I’m sorry to bother. But do you have the name of the book?
No one is in the wrong here
Aside from the one who changed it to become unsafe and caused the incident in the first place
The Medical team cared for him and tried their best even tho they saw how bad it was
The family loved him and didn't want to give up they just wanted him to live (maybe too much but they loved him)
RIP Ouchi
This is such a sad story I feel so bad for him and his family, Rip
i remember watching multiple videos on this, what happened was absolutely horrible
Same it’s sad
Poor guy, must have been in unbearable pain. R.i.p Ouchi. 1964 - 1999
9:55 i saw that picture on tiktok a year ago or so. im extremly weak when it comes to scary and gory stuff like this. i dont understand why people use these gory and scary images to shock people. and i dont understand why people enjoying looking at pictures like these either. scary people i swear
this might be the most interesting way to present a sponsor i've ever watched
6:08 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Sus
The problem with nuclear energy is not the nuclear, but management.
I cant believe they let him suffer in such unimaginable pain for so long. From what I remember about this story, he was getting experimented on, which probably explains why they didnt let him pass away sooner.
I’ve heard this story before…
It’s so sad, and insane how long he had suffered. R.I.P. Ouchi 💔
Nuclear energy is fairly safe, if handled properly. The one thing I never understood about Japans implimentation of Nuclear powerplants was how did anyone think it would be a great idea to build an entire facility on a soil, next to a sea, that has frequent natural catastrophes such as Earthquakes and Tsunamis. So long as you build a Nuclear powerplant on steady ground and run the facility with the necessary responsibility, the risk of something drastic happening is extremely low.
Japan is not all is cracked up too be
To save money maybe
Because that's all they can do with the hand they've been dealt.
The entirety of Japan is within the Pacific Ring of Fire, meaning the entire archipelago and its surrounding seas are subject to a higher frequency of seismic activities. These activities include underwater earthquakes, which directly cause tsunamis.
As for 'next to a sea', well, nuclear power plants require a large and steady amount of readily available water to serve as a cooling agent for the reactors (hence they're always built near large bodies of waters).
Since Japan is mountainous and has more coastline than say large inland lakes at level ground, building the power plants by the sea is the only logical solution
Simply put Japan doesn't have a 'steady ground' to build a nuclear powerplant on. This issue was recognized as well, with most of Japan's energy source coming from burning imported oil/coal/natural gas and other nonrenewable resources.
They thought it was strong enough to handle it.
@@neyneyganeyney6046 Right. Which really leaves the entire idea under heavy questioning. Obviously safety wasnt on their priority list when deciding to execute the plan to build the facilities in the first place.
As for the domestic energy production, knowing Japan is subject to a decent amount of volcanic activity as you already pointed out, have they ever tried figuring out if they could be able to somehow convert that heat energy into commercially usable one? Personally ive never heard of "Heat facilities", but i guess it could be an alternative?