This video is inaccurate. The story is much more horrifying and complex then this video makes it out to be. JCO facility technicians Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were speeding up the last few steps of the fuel/conversion process to meet shipping requirements. It was JCO's first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years; no proper qualification and training requirements were established to prepare for the process. To save processing time and convenience, the team mixed the chemicals in stainless-steel buckets. The workers followed JCO operating manual guidance in this process but were unaware it was not approved by the STA. Under correct operating procedure, uranyl nitrate would be stored inside a buffer tank and gradually pumped into the precipitation tank in 2.4 kg increments Hiroshi Ouchi, one of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells. The doctors were at a loss as to what to do. There were very few precedents and proven medical treatments for the victims of radiation poisoning. Less than 20 nuclear accidents had occurred in the world to that point, and most of those happened 30 years ago. This book documents the following 83 days of treatment until his passing, with detailed descriptions and explanations of the radiation poisoning. It was in fact this family that wanted the doctors to do everything possible to try to save him. Accounts of nurses and doctors wondering if this was moral or ethical have been recorded. There is a book on amazon about this called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness" retelling this story and all its horrors. It does Hiroshi Ouchi and his family a disservice to tell his story so inaccurately.
You know when you rip the tiny piece of skin on your finger off? It burns , right but this person has this all over his body and inside his body it would've felt like A Blender shredding his organs. Thats worse than being burned alive
For well over a month too. The worst medieval tortures would only last a few days tops due to exposure. Although still unethical, they should have induced brain death if they wanted to see what happens. It should have been obvious that a human has a 0% of surviving after getting their chromosomes liquified. They were no better than the Imperial Japanese and their human “experiments” for keeping him alive in that state.
It's interesting how almost everyone has tried to misconstrue this story when his family actually told the doctors to do whatever they could to keep him alive. When his heart stopped three times in one day, they pleaded with the doctors to bring him back, each time doing so and being successful for a short time.
@@jyjori Maybe his family didn't understand the extent of his injuries and what it entailed. You can't tell me you wouldn't do whatever you could in your power or tell the doctors to keep your family member alive.
@@hatch1892 they probably werent told exactly what happened to him or allowed to see just how sick and injured he was, they didnt know and grief itself does strange things to people. Maybe just like him, they were in denial
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f yeah, that’s the case. They were in denial according to what I’ve read, they were also actually allowed to see him on a regular basis. It’s just that they didn’t want to see him die, that’s what most normal people would want to do.
The doctors weren’t using him for experiments, it was the family’s wish for them to keep ouchi alive in the hope he will survive. The doctors and nurses def got trauma from this experiments and really felt bad for him. If you want to blame someone, blame his family.
If you read the book 'A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness' (published in 2008), while he was still conscious and able to indicate his wishes, initially Ouchi himself expressed a wish for treatment to continue and for them not to let him die. It wasn't until much later in the treatment process that he began to express any sort of desire for treatment not to continue, and even then he gave conflicting statements, at times begging the staff to stop, and other times insisting they not to let him die, he wanted to live, and he was willing to continue with the treatments. I do believe once he no longer had the capacity to express his own wishes, the Doctors should have sat his family down and really pressed home the reality of what was happening, until they accepted the situation and agreed to make him DNR. Prior to that though, if the patient is of sound mind, and he's indicating to Doctors 'Yes, continue treating me, don't give up', well naturally they're going to accept the patient's wishes.
@@tuut5154 Indeed, other sources say the doctors brought his family to see his deteriorating condition in the first week, but the family still clung onto hope, which baffled the doctors.
There are so many errors with this video it’s incredible. They had mSV doses, not SV as reported. They also weren’t “highly trained” nuclear technicians, they were low level employees doing what they were told to do by managers who had removed safeguards designed to stop this happening. The pretty cartoons are nice but getting the facts rights is a fundamental of telling the story.
One generally does not die of acute radiation sickness from a single external dose of up to hundreds of millisieverts. Short-term mortality starts increasing sharply in the Sievert range (thousands of mSv). 17 Sv is not survivable, and death usually occurs within 24 hours, even with treatment - unless something insane and futile is done, which only delays the inevitable and prolongs the suffering, as in this case. 5 Sv is often fatal, and the death may be preceded by a considerably long period of general unwellness. 3 Sv is sometimes fatal, but tends to cause lasting deterioration of general health. 1 Sv causes acute radiation sickness, but is usually survivable, even in the long term. The outcomes in this video are pretty consistent with the doses reported.
@@megari4146 You literally just recounted what the above video said. That doesnt prove anything. Theres a book about this. Which tells it correctly. If you're gunna argue with the OP, maybe start by reading that first.
@@gunners4129 I do not understand your objection. I simply corrected OP's incorrect (or at least misleading) statement regarding the magnitude of the doses, and gave a bit of general information about the effects of different dose levels. The point was that there is no way the doses were just in the mSv range, or even hundreds of mSv. They were in the multiple-Sievert range, that is, thousands (or indeed, tens of thousands) of mSv. I just re-checked some sources, and the doses of the two deceased technicians were reported as 10 Sv and 17 Sv, consistent with the above. The only survivor among the three workers present received a high, potentially lethal dose: 3 Sv. So, I stand by what I said. As you certainly seem to know, there are a lot of factual inaccuracies in the video, but they are not the subject of my comment.
About this guy receiving the highest dose in history: as far as i know there is at least one guy getting an higher dose. Boris korchilov, lieutenant on soviet sumbarine k-19: 54 SV
NOPE THANKS he was told to put that much in the tank. They said that the company took short cuts and ignored safety protocols. It was the companies fault. You heartless if you really think he deserved to basically turn to liquid for 83 days being forced to live by doctors
@@simonabbott4949 people who laugh at other people's pain are the worst, I really hope you are a kid, because then you have a chance to heal and mature.... if you are an adult tho.... please don't procreate or influence future kids, consider it a life-long challenge :3
Yeah, radiation "burns" are not really burns in the sense that they aren't caused by extreme heat. What happens is that the radiation damages the skin cells and the cells begin to die off rapidly and this is what causes acute dermatitis. The "burns" also happened on the inside of Ouchi's body (in internal organs like the kidneys and intestines) as the radiation basically unraveled his DNA and when his cells died, his body couldn't regenerate any new cells because the DNA was so damaged. Radiation burns do usually appear within days or hours depending on high the dose of radiation. In Ouchi's case, the dose was so high that they probably appeared the same day. As for the family of this poor man, I don't think they understood what radiation does, and thought he could somehow recover. Otherwise they would have let him slip away peacefully within a few days.
59 days later, the dudes body is literally decomposing but his heart is still beating and they are still trying to keep him alive. That's just messed up.
@@Gwyllgi he did not ask to die. Up until becoming non verbal the only thing he said that could even be construed as that was "you're hurting me." Doctors tend to hear that a lot. This particular video is making a lot of claims and assumptions and presenting them as fact. There is plenty of information about this case out there, but they have chosen to spread rumor and perpetuate conspiracy theories rather than do their research.
So much is untrue in this video: -Ouchi’s foot/leg was NOT removed in any way. If it had been he would’ve bled out as his blood was unable to clot. The medical team decided against amputations for this reason (I’m guessing this comes from that fake photo online supposedly of Ouchi with his limbs,with one leg missing, hanging and covered in blood) -The medical staff did not “decide” he would be a guinea pig, his family and Ouchi himself at one point were very much in favor of treatment up until they were told there was nothing more that could be done. Meaning his doctors DID let him die. They endlessly contemplated ending his treatment but Ouchi’s family encouraged them to continue -The skin on his back side was not effected in the way described. It was actually mostly intact until he died.Additionally, the skin grafts expected to fail. It was an attempt to keep those fluids in as much as possible. -His skin did not start to peel like that until AFTER he arrived in Tokyo. The team was shocked by how normal he looked upon arrival. -Ouchi was given extreme sedatives and painkillers during this time. It’s not as if he wasn’t suffering but all videos on this ignore this fact.
@@fandomencounter1672 yeah, those images and this video are extremely fake and misleading imo. These people just want to make views and are even willing to post unresearched videos just for the increased shock factor.
yea, it would have been illegal for the doctors to let ouchi die when there were no signed dnr papers. this is just a horrifying and sad case of false hope and mistreatment of employees from a company
@@eoozy2617 yes but his family didn’t understand that so they told the doctors to do everything in their power to save him. The doctors also said that once he first got to the hospital he looked healthy other than that he was very red, almost looked like a sunburn and that may have given them false hope if you get me. The cells he got from his sister too. They seemed to work but after a while, they too were mutated and ruined by all the radiation.
@@eoozy2617 they did, they tried to convince the family early on that there was little to no chance of him surviving but the family clung to false hope
NOPE THANKS the JCO and the person in charge of the operation, aka Yutaka, stepped out and apologized since they are the people that authorized and told Ouchi to perform the act. Next time do some research.
Peaked Interest did a far better video on this story that explained how workplace negligence led to Ouchi's death. Plant workers were under immense pressure to produce rods with much higher uranium quantities to speed up the process, because they were behind on production. This among other corner cutting measures made the three workers take lethal or dangerous levels of radiation. This fact is glossed over at the very end of this video. Also, the doctors didn't really make the decision to try experimental treatments. Ouchi's family insisted that they keep him alive via any means possible and they simply couldn't let him die without a Do Not Resuscitate order signed by the family. They insisted that the family visit every day so they could see the reality of what Ouchi was going through and that this could hopefully change their mind. The doctors knew that he was a dead man and that any treatment would most likely prolong his suffering. They did it anyway because the treatments were experimental and if they didn't respect the family's wishes by keeping Ouchi alive they'd face criminal charges for allowing him to die. A DNR wasn't signed until 81 days after Ouchi's admission. He died two days later when his heart stopped again.
But no case in history resulted in 3 months of continuos torture with the utilisation of the best life supports only to destroy completely and gradually a human beeing.
so not only did they not listen to him when he said he wanted to die, they made him live in severe pain, but in top of that they conducted experiments on him without even permission from him. This is just wrong.
Becuz he was guaranteed death and since it's such a rare opportunity they decided to take the advantage for the sake of science,but I agree it is very wrong to do this without his consent
@@damienrey8216 No on can say if a comatose person feels pain ( or anything else), all can be truthfully said is that a comatose person does not RESPOND TO ___ whatever the stimulus is or may be. There are even instances of people who have been put under anesthesia that have claimed to feel pain but not respond to it.
Actually, I think the doctors kept him alive at his family's request. The doctors tried every single medical treatment, including ones that were still in testing, just to keep him alive in the slim hope that he might live and that he can see his family. I believe the doctors had no ill intentions, in fact, I think they were deeply hurt by the trauma he had to go through.
I'm almost certain the doctors didn't do it willingly. They were most likely forced by the authorities. The doctors probably had nightmares of this for the rest of their lives
"controversial decision" HOW IS KEEPING A PRACTICALLY ZOMBIFIED MAN WHO IS LITERALLY MELTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT ALIVE JUST "CONTROVERSIAL"? THATS DOWNRIGHT CRUEL.
But although very harrowing and disgusting. It is still medically interesting to take great insight and detailed observation on the effects of a human being who has endured the highest dose of radiation poising ever recorded in human history. Like he said in the video, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see what would unfold in such a rare and insane case.
FYI, the doctors are not the bad guys they are making them seem to be. The real reason why they kept him alive and resuscitated him after his cardiac arrest is because, in Japan, doctors are legally required to resuscitate a patient if they do not have a do-not-resuscitate consent form signed by the patient's family. The medical staff themselves kept advising his family to sign the form so Ouchi can stop being in pain. It was only on his 81st day in the hospital that Ouchi's family finally agreed to sign said form. On the 83rd day, he had another cardiac arrest and the doctors did not resuscitate him anymore.
@FuranDuron to no avail. If these heros need to do unethical things, it's fine, but if nothing comes out of it, they're monsters. It's a societal normal to hurt someone to save others.
They saw an once in a lifetime opportunity for testing that can save future lives and took it. It was a tough decision but hopefully his sacrifice will help others in future situations
@@summy5139 i dont think any amount of knowledge taken from such an experiment would have helped anyone. When you get so much radiation, you are doomed. Should have let him die. Ends justify the means should only be applied when the human race is on the line. This type of mantality leads to unethical practices, which i believe should only be done in very extreme situations
This is Japan. Total lie of a nation. This also happened in 1999. Near where the current nuclear waste is leaking all over the pacific ocean. Disgusting country.
Jesus Christ how were the doctors aloud to keep this guy alive. I'm sure people who suffer from this fate in the future will rush to the hospital knowing this is what will happen
Knowing that despite the severity of your condition they will still try to save you? I would say the fact that they tried says something positive about the medical staff. If you were severly ill or injured would you prefer it if the doctor's tried to help or just left you because they thought you were unlikely to survive.
I feel like this video is biased against the medical team. Other sources claim that the medical staff were obliged by law to keep him alive since no DNR order was signed by the family. Granted, no one should ever have to go through this, and I feel deeply for what this man went through, but this is poor research.
Ouchi never actually asked to die, or be put out of his misery, this is a common misconception. he was very cooperative throughout most of the process. But as his condition continued to worsen, he did at one point lash out at the nurses and said that he just wanted to go home.
Extremely *UNETHICAL.* If Ouchi was my patient, I would sedate him, keep him as comfortable as I can until he passed away. He would be LIT. I would not keep him alive suffering in agony like that. As soon as his heart stopped, I would let him go.
You wouldn't even be able to sedate him or numb the pain; at that level of ARS, the veins in his body are breaking down from the cells being destroyed.
The video also stated that there was no DNA left in his body. I would almost guarantee that was not true, but there probably were no intact chromosomes resembling a human genome left in his body. They knew that there was no chance in saving him. There was nothing left to replicate: no instructions, no template, nothing to build on. Still, even as he melted away there would have been nucleic acids left in at least some of his tissue and even A/C/G/T monomers are still considered DNA.
I watched the documentary about this man by this medical team and apparently his family was the one begging the doctors to keep him alive in hopes of saving him and I believe the man actually wanted to fight to stay alive too. I believed the story the infographics showed but since seeing his medical team come out and speak on the story I’m not to sure about this version of it. The Japanese documentary seemed a lot more genuine and heavily in depth
@@DontKnow-lz1vh I mean yes but being an experiment isn't aka lab rat isn't living if I had heard my friends or family member ended up like him idk dude he either suffers or dies if his family did do radiation studies and saw him he way he was they would have said otherwise
This video is fundamentally incorrect. They had an unbelievable amount of errors. First of all, the big misconception. The doctors never kept him alive against his will. Some basic research will tell you that he asked the doctors to keep him alive and not give up on him. It was only when his thought process started to deteriorate that he became frustrated with the treatments and asked if he could go home. His family also asked the doctors to do whatever they have to do to keep him alive. By Japanese law, only the family had the rights to allow him to die so the doctors were literally legally obligated to keep him alive. The doctors even tried convincing his family to sign the euthanasia papers by allowing them to see him every day to show that he was only getting worse and that any further treatments would only cause more suffering. The widespread misconception about how the doctors conducted experiments on him is also false. The only “new” treatment that they tried on him was a transfusion of stem cells from a healthy person to an ill one. If I was conducting experiments and only ended up doing one thing, I’d say that to be a pretty miserable failure, so the theory that they conducted experiments on him really makes no sense, both logically and factually.
This film is really interesting but i am really suprised about one thing. The doctors, who refuse to turn off life support of the patient, the patient that skin was nonexistent, had blood in his eyes. They where making experiments on living-wreck. That is unaccpetable. They were propably on the same level with "doctor" Mengele. Nuts.
This is horribly inaccurate. The doctors were not keeping him alive for experiments or just to torture him, they were keeping him alive because that’s what his family wished for. They wished to keep him alive as long as possible because they loved him and wanted to see him get better. The doctors did not force him to stay alive against his will, it was his family’s wishes to keep him alive.
0:13 False. The greatest dose of radiation any human being has ever experienced is 117Sv in 1958 by Cecil Kelley, the worker in the Los Alamos nuclear power plant. The dose was so powerful, it immediately wrecked havoc on every part of his body, including the immune system, blood cells(they actually died the moment he was dosed, and since the bone marrow function was also jeopardized, his blood became transparent as the plasma of his blood became the only thing that was left in it) and nervous system. He said his body was "burning up" and began rolling on a pile of snow despite the fact that he looked mostly normal besides some minor burns and wounds sustained during the escape. The massive cell death in his blood caused his blood pressure to drop to 80/40 while his heart started beating at 160 beats per minute. He died 35 hours later after initial exposure due to cardiac arrest. While Hisashi Ouchi isn't the highest on record, the development of Ouchi's symptoms was far worse than that of Cecil Kelley, mostly because his entire body became so damaged that he couldn't sustain himself to see his body wear away in the same way Ouchi would have. However, in terms of explaining the horrors of what radiation can do to a human body, this video's topic is the most appropriate of them all. Edit: Changed 120Sv -> 36Sv after finding a more verifiable source. Edit 2: Changed 36Sv -> 117Sv after more research. Read the comment below.
THE GEAR same lab, different accident. Los Alamos has a (rightfully earned) bad reputation for radiation safety. They almost had another critically accident in 2011, again due to stupidity and ignoring safety.
I'm not sure that THAT is even correct as the three men that died from the SL1 prompt criticality accident died within a couple hours from the radiation and from physical injuries (one head injury and one was impaled by a control rod in the ceiling). But their bodies alone were so contaminated that they were emitting 1500 R/hr. That's Twice the lethal dose every hour from the contamination alone, the criticality incident would have been orders of magnitude higher. Luckily? the one who survived his physical injuries was nonetheless incapacitated immediately from the radiation and died withing a few hours. They had to do the autopsies from fifteen feet away behind thick lead shields and their individual graves were dug unusually deep in lead lined coffins beneath a three foot concrete slab. Most of us will never leave any lasting legacy for humanity, but millions of years from now, hyper intelligent cockroach anthropologists will know exactly how those three men died.
And it's crazy how simple it is to fact-check literally almost anything, yet, people rarely do. I never argue anything without doing my own research. I love RUclips but there's so much misinformation that sounds legitimate.
I thought about this, is it sad I like to watch this but don’t like to do school work? Both educational. Oh that’s why this RUclips channel is fun to watch.
he never did this guy buffed his video up a lot his leg also never simply fell off and even though blood came from his eyes he never begged to die since he couldnt talk at that point anymore
narrator: and his organs fell apart and his muscles peeled off his bones and a few months later he began to disintegrate! Me: Thanks For Giving My Nightmares!
the documentary that showed the actual doctors in it said he seemed like he just had a sunburn ,not that his skin was already falling off like it said at 3:22
@@tomcotter994 just look up his name on google and go to images. The worst photo is one that was supposedly taken after his skin fell off but that one was proved to be fake, the rest of them were real!
Whitemen who worked for a corporation called Marvel Comics gave us the idea that Exposure to Radiation= Super Powers. (When the Reality is.... Exposure to Radiation = DEATH)
Realistically, you just create a storm that has radiation. The amount of energy and power in one hurricane far outpaces any current nuclear weapon we have. These storms are also huge. One nuke isn't going to do much. It'll just make it a bit radioactive.
Not much, you just get the same hurricane but radioactive. Hurricanes are huge and their power output is orders of magnitude more than current nuclear bombs can put out.
1:34 Nuclear reactions create nuclear chain reactions not nuclear chemical reactions. Chemical reactions involve only the outer shell electrons while nuclear reactions involve the particles of the nucleus and rarely, the inner shell electrons. In a chemical reaction one atom combines with another and create compounds, and vice versa. In a nuclear reaction, the change occurs mainly in the nucleus. This is why such reactions are called 'nuclear'.
It’s not real that his skin is falling off in the first few hours after the exposure as of the interview from nurses he looks normal but with severely red tan on his arms
This sounds insane. One can only imagine the amount of pain he felt. I kinda remember Bruce Banner (The Hulk) being exposed to radiation in a lab in the first Hulk movie but that was a movie. This is not😱
Wow! this makes being turned into a Feral Ghoul in Fallout seem like a walk in the park. The amount of unfathomable agony this man went through is just incomprehensiblly staggering to hear and to think that people say what he went through much worse then the video describes. Phew, my condolences for all of your suffering. Rest in Peace
@@Zecxor i also read somewhere that he could not even close his eyelids, so even if he could not speak after a while, his eyes literally screamed for his suffering to end
Day 1 of the experiment: I will expose myself to high levels of gamma radiation. Tomorrow I'll report results. Day 37: Apparently I've been in a coma for 5 weeks. When I came back home my mom yelled at me. I became angry and started to turn green. I must've passed out because I woke up in my living room (I think?) and everything was smashed to pieces. Day 40: Help, the FBI is coming for me!
A little bit of context: They were pressured to complete the task assigned to them. Normal safety procedures are ignored for the sake of completing the task. The doctors didn't treat him like a test subject. They treated him with respect and tried to save him. His heart was beating faster than someone who's running. The doctors are legally required to resurrect him. Later the doctors convinced the family to sign a paper which allows the doctors to not resurrect him. He died when his heart stopped one more time.
They did not mention how his family played a huge role in getting the Doctors to keep trying to save ouchi. They held onto hope and wanted him to survive
They lied tho the doctors tried and were asked to de everything they can to save his life in the end the family signed a DO NOT RESISTANT which means if his heart stops beating again they will not bring him back theres a video that explains how everything went down "The most radioactive man in history" by peaked intrested
Here's a list of wrong information in this video: Ouchi was not experienced, in fact he wasn't trained for the task he was given at all and he wasn't told that the concentration of U in the mixture is 18% instead of the usual 5%. There were no immediate burns, except for damage to his left hand, which was swollen. Ouchi didn't vomit into the tank, but in the changing room where he passed out. His skin didn't start coming off until days after arriving at the hospital. Nurses who were taking care of him were fairly optimistic, because he didn''t show a lot of damage at all. He was lucid and talking to people, even joking. The doctors didn't keep him alive just to experiment on him, his family was insisting on trying everything possible to keep him alive. The doctors allowed for daily visitations, so that they can see his horrific condition and sign a DNR order, but they were stubborn. The whole depiction of where he begs the doctors to die so they put him in a medical coma is completely made up. He was on heavy doses of sedatives since his eyelids came off - even then his family insisted on keeping him alive. The medication didn't work on him not because he was so damaged by radiation, but because nothing could stay in his system long enough - he was leaking from everywhere, including heavy amounts of diarrhea and mucus from his intestines, later blood. The doctors legally had to resuscitate him, because the family didn't want to give up even though he was basically a skeleton.
@@Panda-hp4tt Long story short, Unit 731 was a medical facility used by Japan during WW2. The place held POW's as well as civilians, and the "Doctors" who worked there performed experiments and methods of torture that were so cruel and inhumane that it made some of the awful things that the Nazis did during the Holocaust look like childs play. Hundreds if not thousands of people lost their lives in unimaginable and awful ways from Unit 731.
This video is fundamentally incorrect. They had an unbelievable amount of errors. First of all, the big misconception. The doctors never kept him alive against his will. Some basic research will tell you that he asked the doctors to keep him alive and not give up on him. It was only when his thought process started to deteriorate that he became frustrated with the treatments and asked if he could go home. His family also asked the doctors to do whatever they have to do to keep him alive. By Japanese law, only the family had the rights to allow him to die so the doctors were literally legally obligated to keep him alive. The doctors even tried convincing his family to sign the euthanasia papers by allowing them to see him every day to show that he was only getting worse and that any further treatments would only cause more suffering. The widespread misconception about how the doctors conducted experiments on him is also false. The only “new” treatment that they tried on him was a transfusion of stem cells from a healthy person to an ill one. If I was conducting experiments and only ended up doing one thing, I’d say that to be a pretty miserable failure, so the theory that they conducted experiments on him really makes no sense, both logically and factually.
There are some facts to this tragedy that you misrepresented. By the time he was airlifted to a more well equipped hospital, his skin was not falling off and he was not in pain at all. In fact, he felt fine for a few days and couldn't grasp the severity of his situation. It would take days before he began to feel severe pain.
A much more accurate telling of this story was made by Lady White Rabbit. It's an excellent video if you're interested in learning more details (and more accurate ones at that) about this devastating story.
What they did to that man to keep him alive was nothing short of criminal torture. No scientific discovery is worth completely abandoning one's humanity.
I see a lot of people criticizing the doctors and nurses. Most of the time we’re not allowed to do what we want or what we think is best. These peoples families wanted everything done to keep them alive. Please lets not judge so quickly.
Officialy according to the law, the doctors were illegally examining him, as Hisashi Ouchi refused to stay alive and didn't allow the doctors to examine him. Yet, the doctors were ignoring his rejections and hurted him phisically. This indicates abuse to Hisashi Ouchi, and therefore the doctors should have been arrested.
Untrue, he did have an out burst pretty early on but actually apologized shortly after. He did want to move forward with treatment but was also extremely heavily sedated and given powerful painkillers toward the worst part of the ordeal. At one point he was possibly brain dead according to one member of staff but a more optimistic member of a higher position rejected this conclusion though the evidence was pretty clear. Read A Slow Death, it’s got all the facts written in a straightforward manner and it’s less sensational than how the story is often told. Point is, he never rejected treatment
he and his family wanted the medical team to do everything they could to save him. the doctors warned almost immidiately after his health started to decline that it wasnt likely he'd survive. at some point he did become angry and wanted to go home but it was more of a "i'm fine why are you keeping me" irritation the medical staff has a obligation to do all they can to save lives. both him and his family wanted them to do everything they could to save him no matter what.
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This video is inaccurate. The story is much more horrifying and complex then this video makes it out to be. JCO facility technicians Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were speeding up the last few steps of the fuel/conversion process to meet shipping requirements. It was JCO's first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years; no proper qualification and training requirements were established to prepare for the process. To save processing time and convenience, the team mixed the chemicals in stainless-steel buckets. The workers followed JCO operating manual guidance in this process but were unaware it was not approved by the STA. Under correct operating procedure, uranyl nitrate would be stored inside a buffer tank and gradually pumped into the precipitation tank in 2.4 kg increments
Hiroshi Ouchi, one of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells.
The doctors were at a loss as to what to do. There were very few precedents and proven medical treatments for the victims of radiation poisoning. Less than 20 nuclear accidents had occurred in the world to that point, and most of those happened 30 years ago. This book documents the following 83 days of treatment until his passing, with detailed descriptions and explanations of the radiation poisoning.
It was in fact this family that wanted the doctors to do everything possible to try to save him. Accounts of nurses and doctors wondering if this was moral or ethical have been recorded. There is a book on amazon about this called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness" retelling this story and all its horrors. It does Hiroshi Ouchi and his family a disservice to tell his story so inaccurately.
It’s so creepy because it’s like he’s decomposing but he’s still alive
Were you there mate?
@@linguinichannel Were you there then?
it’s a 7 minute youtube video not a full feature documentary bud. if you feel so passionately about it make your own video.
@@blxxdwxrk he just wants people to know the more important points that the video got wrong no need to be rude
The guy probably experienced levels of pain far worse than anyone else in history.
I cant even fathom the pain he was in. I hope noone ever experiences that again.
You know when you rip the tiny piece of skin on your finger off? It burns , right but this person has this all over his body and inside his body it would've felt like A Blender shredding his organs. Thats worse than being burned alive
For well over a month too. The worst medieval tortures would only last a few days tops due to exposure. Although still unethical, they should have induced brain death if they wanted to see what happens. It should have been obvious that a human has a 0% of surviving after getting their chromosomes liquified. They were no better than the Imperial Japanese and their human “experiments” for keeping him alive in that state.
@@b0rder.-991 This is what rapists, murderers and people who abuse animals and children deserve so I don't entirely agree with u
Noam no creature deserves this, evil or not
"The men stagger backward, blinded and dazed."
*shows the scientists nodding their heads and smiling*
EMINGMANN - 1:57
Bruh
😂😂😭😭😭😂😂😂
Well, how do people "stagger backwards dazed and confused" in your country? 🤦😏
@@availanila well they yell and back up while covering their eyes with their arms
It's interesting how almost everyone has tried to misconstrue this story when his family actually told the doctors to do whatever they could to keep him alive. When his heart stopped three times in one day, they pleaded with the doctors to bring him back, each time doing so and being successful for a short time.
His family was worse than the doctors then.
@@jyjori Maybe his family didn't understand the extent of his injuries and what it entailed. You can't tell me you wouldn't do whatever you could in your power or tell the doctors to keep your family member alive.
@@alexey8710 not in that condition you wouldn't. Totally selfish
@@hatch1892 they probably werent told exactly what happened to him or allowed to see just how sick and injured he was, they didnt know and grief itself does strange things to people.
Maybe just like him, they were in denial
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f yeah, that’s the case. They were in denial according to what I’ve read, they were also actually allowed to see him on a regular basis.
It’s just that they didn’t want to see him die, that’s what most normal people would want to do.
The doctors weren’t using him for experiments, it was the family’s wish for them to keep ouchi alive in the hope he will survive. The doctors and nurses def got trauma from this experiments and really felt bad for him. If you want to blame someone, blame his family.
If you read the book 'A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness' (published in 2008), while he was still conscious and able to indicate his wishes, initially Ouchi himself expressed a wish for treatment to continue and for them not to let him die. It wasn't until much later in the treatment process that he began to express any sort of desire for treatment not to continue, and even then he gave conflicting statements, at times begging the staff to stop, and other times insisting they not to let him die, he wanted to live, and he was willing to continue with the treatments. I do believe once he no longer had the capacity to express his own wishes, the Doctors should have sat his family down and really pressed home the reality of what was happening, until they accepted the situation and agreed to make him DNR. Prior to that though, if the patient is of sound mind, and he's indicating to Doctors 'Yes, continue treating me, don't give up', well naturally they're going to accept the patient's wishes.
Blame the company for being this negligent with the safety of it's employees.
Still though the doctors should know better.
@@christiancollier4126 They couldn’t just stop the treatment until the family agreed though. I’m sure they already knew better.
@@tuut5154 Indeed, other sources say the doctors brought his family to see his deteriorating condition in the first week, but the family still clung onto hope, which baffled the doctors.
There are so many errors with this video it’s incredible. They had mSV doses, not SV as reported. They also weren’t “highly trained” nuclear technicians, they were low level employees doing what they were told to do by managers who had removed safeguards designed to stop this happening. The pretty cartoons are nice but getting the facts rights is a fundamental of telling the story.
One generally does not die of acute radiation sickness from a single external dose of up to hundreds of millisieverts. Short-term mortality starts increasing sharply in the Sievert range (thousands of mSv). 17 Sv is not survivable, and death usually occurs within 24 hours, even with treatment - unless something insane and futile is done, which only delays the inevitable and prolongs the suffering, as in this case. 5 Sv is often fatal, and the death may be preceded by a considerably long period of general unwellness. 3 Sv is sometimes fatal, but tends to cause lasting deterioration of general health. 1 Sv causes acute radiation sickness, but is usually survivable, even in the long term. The outcomes in this video are pretty consistent with the doses reported.
@@megari4146 You literally just recounted what the above video said. That doesnt prove anything. Theres a book about this. Which tells it correctly. If you're gunna argue with the OP, maybe start by reading that first.
@@gunners4129 I do not understand your objection. I simply corrected OP's incorrect (or at least misleading) statement regarding the magnitude of the doses, and gave a bit of general information about the effects of different dose levels. The point was that there is no way the doses were just in the mSv range, or even hundreds of mSv. They were in the multiple-Sievert range, that is, thousands (or indeed, tens of thousands) of mSv. I just re-checked some sources, and the doses of the two deceased technicians were reported as 10 Sv and 17 Sv, consistent with the above. The only survivor among the three workers present received a high, potentially lethal dose: 3 Sv. So, I stand by what I said. As you certainly seem to know, there are a lot of factual inaccuracies in the video, but they are not the subject of my comment.
Yeah...As I said in another comment, this channel is usually pretty accurate with their videos, so I don't know why they goofed this one up.
About this guy receiving the highest dose in history: as far as i know there is at least one guy getting an higher dose. Boris korchilov, lieutenant on soviet sumbarine k-19: 54 SV
They basically made him feel like he's burning in acid for a month before he died the poor poor soul RIP
Simon Abbott more like 3 months
NOPE THANKS he was told to put that much in the tank. They said that the company took short cuts and ignored safety protocols. It was the companies fault. You heartless if you really think he deserved to basically turn to liquid for 83 days being forced to live by doctors
Sorry 3 months I'm sure he was just a 5G experiment lol
he was in coma for most of the time
@@simonabbott4949 people who laugh at other people's pain are the worst, I really hope you are a kid, because then you have a chance to heal and mature.... if you are an adult tho.... please don't procreate or influence future kids, consider it a life-long challenge :3
You make it seem as if this happened extremely quick, his skin didn’t start to deteriorate until almost day 20 and he actually asked to be saved
Yeah, radiation "burns" are not really burns in the sense that they aren't caused by extreme heat. What happens is that the radiation damages the skin cells and the cells begin to die off rapidly and this is what causes acute dermatitis. The "burns" also happened on the inside of Ouchi's body (in internal organs like the kidneys and intestines) as the radiation basically unraveled his DNA and when his cells died, his body couldn't regenerate any new cells because the DNA was so damaged. Radiation burns do usually appear within days or hours depending on high the dose of radiation. In Ouchi's case, the dose was so high that they probably appeared the same day. As for the family of this poor man, I don't think they understood what radiation does, and thought he could somehow recover. Otherwise they would have let him slip away peacefully within a few days.
"His skin started peeling off by the time he got to the hospital"
Wrong
@ajrakoni the story teller just has false information, not that they are lying intentionally.
@@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221 that is wrong, thats not how radiation works, watch the wendigoon video
They should’ve just let him die. That’s torture
Literally the worst thing i ever heard, he was begging for death.
Honestly, I'd rather be tortured than go through that.
I guess they wanted to see what happened. You dont see this everyday.
Sometimes suffering must happen to obtain knowledge with which to prevent further suffering. It’s a cruel reality, I admit.
Rob Nie got a point there
59 days later, the dudes body is literally decomposing but his heart is still beating and they are still trying to keep him alive. That's just messed up.
Just like frainkenstein
There was no DNR order so they had to.
@@KayKay114 I'm pretty sure he asked to die
In another video about this incident, the narrator says that when Ouchi died, he was basically a rotting corpse with a beating heart inside.
@@Gwyllgi he did not ask to die. Up until becoming non verbal the only thing he said that could even be construed as that was "you're hurting me." Doctors tend to hear that a lot. This particular video is making a lot of claims and assumptions and presenting them as fact. There is plenty of information about this case out there, but they have chosen to spread rumor and perpetuate conspiracy theories rather than do their research.
"Only human being to live with no dna"What a record to be broken !
Ikr
Apparently, living with no DNA doesn’t work out so well. ☹️
How could he not die instantly
@@lilliesupreme9767 because it would just stop his ability to make new things. His body can still run on stored things though
how did he live with no dna??
So much is untrue in this video:
-Ouchi’s foot/leg was NOT removed in any way. If it had been he would’ve bled out as his blood was unable to clot. The medical team decided against amputations for this reason (I’m guessing this comes from that fake photo online supposedly of Ouchi with his limbs,with one leg missing, hanging and covered in blood)
-The medical staff did not “decide” he would be a guinea pig, his family and Ouchi himself at one point were very much in favor of treatment up until they were told there was nothing more that could be done. Meaning his doctors DID let him die. They endlessly contemplated ending his treatment but Ouchi’s family encouraged them to continue
-The skin on his back side was not effected in the way described. It was actually mostly intact until he died.Additionally, the skin grafts expected to fail. It was an attempt to keep those fluids in as much as possible.
-His skin did not start to peel like that until AFTER he arrived in Tokyo. The team was shocked by how normal he looked upon arrival.
-Ouchi was given extreme sedatives and painkillers during this time. It’s not as if he wasn’t suffering but all videos on this ignore this fact.
This makes me less scared thanks for the info, I’d look up the case myself but I’m afraid of seeing the images(even if they r fake)
@@fandomencounter1672 yeah, those images and this video are extremely fake and misleading imo.
These people just want to make views and are even willing to post unresearched videos just for the increased shock factor.
Except his body couldn’t retain medication so the painkillers didn’t do much.
Looked up a picture, bros leg was gone
TY FOR THIS COMMENT
Those doctors just tried to save Ouchi since that’s what his family wanted. So the doctors didn’t have any other choice and are not to blame.
yea, it would have been illegal for the doctors to let ouchi die when there were no signed dnr papers. this is just a horrifying and sad case of false hope and mistreatment of employees from a company
Pretty sure they knew he had no chance to recover though
@@eoozy2617 yes but his family didn’t understand that so they told the doctors to do everything in their power to save him. The doctors also said that once he first got to the hospital he looked healthy other than that he was very red, almost looked like a sunburn and that may have given them false hope if you get me. The cells he got from his sister too. They seemed to work but after a while, they too were mutated and ruined by all the radiation.
Johnny Joestar
@@eoozy2617 they did, they tried to convince the family early on that there was little to no chance of him surviving but the family clung to false hope
There’s actual pictures of him on google, that man died in the most inhumane way possible
Clifton Williams i dont see them
@@wininaphe5104 Look for a red skeleton in a bed.
Cthulhoop i saw it already, it kinda looks like you
@@wininaphe5104 tf r u saying bro
Anime Moments can you read??
This video must be titled “How doctors tortured a dying man”.
OR: "Doctors go to extraordinary lengths to save a dying man."
in the name of science he didnt die in vain.
@@andrewhall7176 there was not going to be any saving him. There absolutely positively was not a chance. And they knew it.
NOPE THANKS the JCO and the person in charge of the operation, aka Yutaka, stepped out and apologized since they are the people that authorized and told Ouchi to perform the act. Next time do some research.
Phuc Tran is right, NOPE THANKS. Do your research. You brought this upon yourself.
Peaked Interest did a far better video on this story that explained how workplace negligence led to Ouchi's death. Plant workers were under immense pressure to produce rods with much higher uranium quantities to speed up the process, because they were behind on production. This among other corner cutting measures made the three workers take lethal or dangerous levels of radiation. This fact is glossed over at the very end of this video.
Also, the doctors didn't really make the decision to try experimental treatments. Ouchi's family insisted that they keep him alive via any means possible and they simply couldn't let him die without a Do Not Resuscitate order signed by the family. They insisted that the family visit every day so they could see the reality of what Ouchi was going through and that this could hopefully change their mind.
The doctors knew that he was a dead man and that any treatment would most likely prolong his suffering. They did it anyway because the treatments were experimental and if they didn't respect the family's wishes by keeping Ouchi alive they'd face criminal charges for allowing him to die.
A DNR wasn't signed until 81 days after Ouchi's admission. He died two days later when his heart stopped again.
Someone needs to lock up the Doctors who kept him alive. Absolutely criminal to use him this way.
The government ordered it
Imagine that hospital bill tho
@@ethxannnn I think Japan has free health care
@@jakubkuberski448 Just because the patient itself doesn't have to pay, doesn't mean it's "free".
Shamayne yeah
Radiation challenge: the girlfriend wasn’t happy about this !
Probably not 😂
"But you'll glow too much"
James Hughes 😁!
But no case in history resulted in 3 months of continuos torture with the utilisation of the best life supports only to destroy completely and gradually a human beeing.
You forgot *FUNNY ANIMATION*
so not only did they not listen to him when he said he wanted to die, they made him live in severe pain, but in top of that they conducted experiments on him without even permission from him. This is just wrong.
Becuz he was guaranteed death and since it's such a rare opportunity they decided to take the advantage for the sake of science,but I agree it is very wrong to do this without his consent
according to the video, after he requested death, they put him in a medically induced coma. He stopped feeling pain at that point.
Well. Not the first time the Japanese did things like this.
@@damienrey8216 No on can say if a comatose person feels pain ( or anything else), all can be truthfully said is that a comatose person does not RESPOND TO ___ whatever the stimulus is or may be.
There are even instances of people who have been put under anesthesia that have claimed to feel pain but not respond to it.
Was his unit number 731?
Actually, I think the doctors kept him alive at his family's request. The doctors tried every single medical treatment, including ones that were still in testing, just to keep him alive in the slim hope that he might live and that he can see his family. I believe the doctors had no ill intentions, in fact, I think they were deeply hurt by the trauma he had to go through.
in japan you cant not keep someone alive unless a DNR is signed
@@Val2007pine you cannot pull the plug* if the family dont want
@@ReiChiquita567 yeah thats what i meant lol
In japan, u are legally obligated to keep the patient alive if they didn't sign a dnr
The short answer: welcome to death we will be taking off in 3 mins.
3 seconds*
I am bean
These so called 'doctors' should be in prison for torturing a dying man. I can't imagine how much pain he would have been in. 'First do no harm'
I'm almost certain the doctors didn't do it willingly. They were most likely forced by the authorities. The doctors probably had nightmares of this for the rest of their lives
@@pierreo33 It was partly his parents not wanting to sign a do not resuscitate
make me think 731 units is so real for Japanese...
How to torture your bestie.....
Is the law in Japan
"If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be begging for that bullet!"
Now i know why
Where is this quote from?
@@HSamee Chernobyl HBO series.
seriously speaking no one should ever suffer from such a nuclear radiation dose.
Do you taste metal?
@Dawie Van Rensburg yes, comrade!
he actually died the moment the radiation passed through him. his body is starting to rot like a corpse but he was alive to see it.
If only the sensory neurons died too :(
scary
He did not die at that moment. He was still very alive and felt everything.
"controversial decision"
HOW IS KEEPING A PRACTICALLY ZOMBIFIED MAN WHO IS LITERALLY MELTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT ALIVE JUST "CONTROVERSIAL"? THATS DOWNRIGHT CRUEL.
It is pure evil
The family wanted to try to save him
@@aresxdlxix true
@@aresxdlxix yes, sometimes we have to go beyond ethics for some thing big
In soviet Russia something somethings something
This is just terrible, what they did to that poor man was pure torture💔
Your profile picture looks like the felipe hat from roblox
true but it was for science
@@noemis8959 My Dad had cancer years ago and they experimented on him too, doesn't make it right!
@@nancygoo3405 sure...
@@noemis8959 they did science in auchwitz too
Short answer: he died
@@cypa9948 Bet
@@cypa9948 *bet*
Sooraj Sooraj S Oh I didn’t know he had a picture and I kinda want to search it now
@@cypa9948 ngl i cant write his name ://
But although very harrowing and disgusting. It is still medically interesting to take great insight and detailed observation on the effects of a human being who has endured the highest dose of radiation poising ever recorded in human history. Like he said in the video, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see what would unfold in such a rare and insane case.
FYI, the doctors are not the bad guys they are making them seem to be. The real reason why they kept him alive and resuscitated him after his cardiac arrest is because, in Japan, doctors are legally required to resuscitate a patient if they do not have a do-not-resuscitate consent form signed by the patient's family. The medical staff themselves kept advising his family to sign the form so Ouchi can stop being in pain. It was only on his 81st day in the hospital that Ouchi's family finally agreed to sign said form. On the 83rd day, he had another cardiac arrest and the doctors did not resuscitate him anymore.
Those doctors are more like monsters
Why would they do such a thing as to let him die the most painful death possible
@FuranDuron to no avail. If these heros need to do unethical things, it's fine, but if nothing comes out of it, they're monsters. It's a societal normal to hurt someone to save others.
They saw an once in a lifetime opportunity for testing that can save future lives and took it. It was a tough decision but hopefully his sacrifice will help others in future situations
@@somenbwithabadhistoryteach5872 the chance of maybe helping hundreds/thousands of people justifies it though :/
@@BreakingStreams spoiler alert, it didn't.
@@EinManU yes, but society wouldn't see it that way.
The doctors who tested on him should have been arrested for in humane actions against a patient, like, wow.
And the scientists
But what if the knowledge they gained from that saved someone's life
@@summy5139 i dont think any amount of knowledge taken from such an experiment would have helped anyone. When you get so much radiation, you are doomed. Should have let him die. Ends justify the means should only be applied when the human race is on the line. This type of mantality leads to unethical practices, which i believe should only be done in very extreme situations
Should only been done on the worst criminals, not innocent people.
This is Japan. Total lie of a nation. This also happened in 1999. Near where the current nuclear waste is leaking all over the pacific ocean. Disgusting country.
Jesus Christ how were the doctors aloud to keep this guy alive. I'm sure people who suffer from this fate in the future will rush to the hospital knowing this is what will happen
I think his family had a hand in that decision.
One day when you're hit with a dose of radiation, this man's death will not be in vain.
@@captauron4514 I haven't consented to that any more than he did. I'm fine with death.
*allowed*
Knowing that despite the severity of your condition they will still try to save you? I would say the fact that they tried says something positive about the medical staff. If you were severly ill or injured would you prefer it if the doctor's tried to help or just left you because they thought you were unlikely to survive.
I feel like this video is biased against the medical team. Other sources claim that the medical staff were obliged by law to keep him alive since no DNR order was signed by the family. Granted, no one should ever have to go through this, and I feel deeply for what this man went through, but this is poor research.
This is one of the worst stories I’ve ever heard. What the doctors did to that man was pure torture.
his family*
@@salvinorindoge3811 not only family lol
@@mikoajkrauze6815 The doctors wanted to let him go but his family didn't and told them to continue
Ouchi never actually asked to die, or be put out of his misery, this is a common misconception. he was very cooperative throughout most of the process. But as his condition continued to worsen, he did at one point lash out at the nurses and said that he just wanted to go home.
the doctors had to. Hisashi's family ordered them to do everything they could to save him, and it would be illegal to just let him die
Ive seen the image of his body, absolutely haunting
I have PTSD from it now :)
@@le0ismyp00kie ieverytime i close my eyes i see that image and now i want to cry
is it real??
so many different pictures.. some of them feels fake
@@vanilla8495 lol ur scared of a disaster theat happen 21 years ago
The photo with the fully red man with his right leg amputated is not a real photo of Ouchi, jusr saying
Extremely *UNETHICAL.* If Ouchi was my patient, I would sedate him, keep him as comfortable as I can until he passed away. He would be LIT. I would not keep him alive suffering in agony like that. As soon as his heart stopped, I would let him go.
Would you circumcise him?
How could you sedate him if his veins ans capilaris are completly melted down...
Gregory Malchuk ¿
You wouldn't even be able to sedate him or numb the pain; at that level of ARS, the veins in his body are breaking down from the cells being destroyed.
that wouldn't work
This guys needs to revise his facts, they're not very accurate.
“it burned white blood cells”
Shows red blood cell.
They showed the white ones depleting leaving only the red ones behind.
Yeah, because all the WBC are gone and now only RBC was left
No they only showed red ones disappearing
The video also stated that there was no DNA left in his body. I would almost guarantee that was not true, but there probably were no intact chromosomes resembling a human genome left in his body.
They knew that there was no chance in saving him. There was nothing left to replicate: no instructions, no template, nothing to build on.
Still, even as he melted away there would have been nucleic acids left in at least some of his tissue and even A/C/G/T monomers are still considered DNA.
this is an example when you skipped the biology class...
This is so terrifying, I shivered after hearing about the pain this man went through
Ikr my heartbeat went to like 120 watching this and my body felt so fragile watching
@@jvnotfound5358 same, it was very intense 🥺😳
@@sjsiemka tru
I couldn't sleep after that
DO NOT LOOK UP PHOTOS FOR YOUR SAKE!
The medical team should’ve been arrested for violating human rights
Government probably ordered the doctors to
I watched the documentary about this man by this medical team and apparently his family was the one begging the doctors to keep him alive in hopes of saving him and I believe the man actually wanted to fight to stay alive too. I believed the story the infographics showed but since seeing his medical team come out and speak on the story I’m not to sure about this version of it. The Japanese documentary seemed a lot more genuine and heavily in depth
@@jonahavocado5402 government was funding the experiments they got drugs outside of japan for it
flow repins666 the medication they needed to treat him in hopes of recovery was readily available outside of Japan
Japan doesnt have human rights 😂😂
My heart hurts so bad for this guy. The amount of suffering . Deeply disturbing for me
I received the highest daily dose of internet after watching all of his videos
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straight up wrong how they forced him to live.
His family wanted it tho
@@DontKnow-lz1vh I mean yes but being an experiment isn't aka lab rat isn't living if I had heard my friends or family member ended up like him idk dude he either suffers or dies if his family did do radiation studies and saw him he way he was they would have said otherwise
@@DontKnow-lz1vh He said no. His family wanted him to die too. Just the Government and doctors forced him to do be alive
@@DontKnow-lz1vh how do you know that?
@@carahtychewicz9476 there's a documentary about this. You should watch it to get a better picture about this accident
No matter how many times I hear this story it still gives me the chills just trying to imagine the pain and anguish he had to endure
I honestly don't know how the heart was still beating with a melted body, that looks painful.
I think it's fair to say it was probably quite painful, yes.
his heart was pumping and the blood was just leaking....imagine the pain
Ouchi: barely human and dying
The Japanese doctors: Oh no you don't!
This video is fundamentally incorrect. They had an unbelievable amount of errors. First of all, the big misconception. The doctors never kept him alive against his will. Some basic research will tell you that he asked the doctors to keep him alive and not give up on him. It was only when his thought process started to deteriorate that he became frustrated with the treatments and asked if he could go home. His family also asked the doctors to do whatever they have to do to keep him alive. By Japanese law, only the family had the rights to allow him to die so the doctors were literally legally obligated to keep him alive. The doctors even tried convincing his family to sign the euthanasia papers by allowing them to see him every day to show that he was only getting worse and that any further treatments would only cause more suffering. The widespread misconception about how the doctors conducted experiments on him is also false. The only “new” treatment that they tried on him was a transfusion of stem cells from a healthy person to an ill one. If I was conducting experiments and only ended up doing one thing, I’d say that to be a pretty miserable failure, so the theory that they conducted experiments on him really makes no sense, both logically and factually.
me: *smashes the keyboard becuase i am mad*
everybody else at the reactor control room: 0_0
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This film is really interesting but i am really suprised about one thing. The doctors, who refuse to turn off life support of the patient, the patient that skin was nonexistent, had blood in his eyes. They where making experiments on living-wreck. That is unaccpetable. They were propably on the same level with "doctor" Mengele. Nuts.
Look up “Unit 731” The Japanese have a history of this
They were worse than mengele
This is horribly inaccurate. The doctors were not keeping him alive for experiments or just to torture him, they were keeping him alive because that’s what his family wished for. They wished to keep him alive as long as possible because they loved him and wanted to see him get better. The doctors did not force him to stay alive against his will, it was his family’s wishes to keep him alive.
0:13 False. The greatest dose of radiation any human being has ever experienced is 117Sv in 1958 by Cecil Kelley, the worker in the Los Alamos nuclear power plant. The dose was so powerful, it immediately wrecked havoc on every part of his body, including the immune system, blood cells(they actually died the moment he was dosed, and since the bone marrow function was also jeopardized, his blood became transparent as the plasma of his blood became the only thing that was left in it) and nervous system. He said his body was "burning up" and began rolling on a pile of snow despite the fact that he looked mostly normal besides some minor burns and wounds sustained during the escape. The massive cell death in his blood caused his blood pressure to drop to 80/40 while his heart started beating at 160 beats per minute. He died 35 hours later after initial exposure due to cardiac arrest.
While Hisashi Ouchi isn't the highest on record, the development of Ouchi's symptoms was far worse than that of Cecil Kelley, mostly because his entire body became so damaged that he couldn't sustain himself to see his body wear away in the same way Ouchi would have. However, in terms of explaining the horrors of what radiation can do to a human body, this video's topic is the most appropriate of them all.
Edit: Changed 120Sv -> 36Sv after finding a more verifiable source.
Edit 2: Changed 36Sv -> 117Sv after more research. Read the comment below.
I’m surprised by Infographics
Is that the demon core guy?
THE GEAR same lab, different accident. Los Alamos has a (rightfully earned) bad reputation for radiation safety. They almost had another critically accident in 2011, again due to stupidity and ignoring safety.
Thanks for sharing! Radiation exposure to that extent is rediculously scary.
I'm not sure that THAT is even correct as the three men that died from the SL1 prompt criticality accident died within a couple hours from the radiation and from physical injuries (one head injury and one was impaled by a control rod in the ceiling). But their bodies alone were so contaminated that they were emitting 1500 R/hr. That's Twice the lethal dose every hour from the contamination alone, the criticality incident would have been orders of magnitude higher. Luckily? the one who survived his physical injuries was nonetheless incapacitated immediately from the radiation and died withing a few hours. They had to do the autopsies from fifteen feet away behind thick lead shields and their individual graves were dug unusually deep in lead lined coffins beneath a three foot concrete slab.
Most of us will never leave any lasting legacy for humanity, but millions of years from now, hyper intelligent cockroach anthropologists will know exactly how those three men died.
Me getting my finger tip burned: 😢😭😭
Can't even imagine that man's pain
Radiation burns are actually different from burns caused by heat. Radiation burns are caused by the small particles destroying your skin.
Plot twist: he turns green and samuel l Jackson asks him to join the avengers
YES
SPIKE5 😂😂
Hulk was made from Gamma radiation. Not Nuclear.
Cthulhoop the radiation from uranium is gamma it’s a wave length not a type of radiation
@@OK-hb1hl yep
It's kinda interesting how people straight up believe everything posted by some random guys without having even a smallest doubt about its accuracy
Ikr
And it's crazy how simple it is to fact-check literally almost anything, yet, people rarely do. I never argue anything without doing my own research. I love RUclips but there's so much misinformation that sounds legitimate.
It is, they'd believe everything they see at this point
This is absolutely scary and extremely sad to hear.
I thought about this, is it sad I like to watch this but don’t like to do school work?
Both educational. Oh that’s why this RUclips channel is fun to watch.
Aaron ___ same
Same
understandable, school forces you to learn, but you can learn what you on herr
external expectations never outweigh internal motivations
@@_ben_miller well said
This poor man truly deserved better in life
At 3.46 there is huge falsehoods being told about the medical team. He was kept alive because his family refused to sign a DNR authorization.
He asked to die yet they still resuscitated him. What's wrong with people?
he never did this guy buffed his video up a lot his leg also never simply fell off and even though blood came from his eyes he never begged to die since he couldnt talk at that point anymore
Pure EVIL.!
The law at that time.
His family told them to try and save him
narrator: and his organs fell apart and his muscles peeled off his bones and a few months later he began to disintegrate!
Me: Thanks For Giving My Nightmares!
Wait till you find the images that occasionally get reposted on forums 🙃
@@nevoir9392 that's what i was going to say as well
Trust me the nightmares are the better half, if you look up pictures you would never sleep again
I google imaged Hisashi Ouchi. Truly heartbreaking. Keeping him alive for 83 days is criminal imo. ☹️
Okay what crime did they commit? You can't just charge somebody with "crime"
@@hooliganfanatic7241 For making someone suffer
@@skepicronalan6217 not a crime
@@hooliganfanatic7241 torture
@@honeycatacomb1191 not a crime in japan unless it's linked to another violent crime
the documentary that showed the actual doctors in it said he seemed like he just had a sunburn ,not that his skin was already falling off like it said at 3:22
I feel so hearthbreaked and horrified at the same time googling this guy, so sad what he experienced.
I know its too late but googling the images was a big mistake.
@@Chris-db5gy where can you find them I know it's bad but I'm really interested in this stuff and I want to know more about it
@@tomcotter994 just look up his name on google and go to images. The worst photo is one that was supposedly taken after his skin fell off but that one was proved to be fake, the rest of them were real!
I’ll save you the long explanation:
He died.
Didnt expect that
Thank i would have never known that
No the shortest explanation is he died suffering
@@thatguyinthecockpit7379 that's longer
Fabian Gomez that can describe his condition in shortest
*This was messed up.*
putting it in bold text won't get you any extra attention ;)
@@agarthius6863 nobody asked
@@too_many_chromosomes5876 who asked for your reply
@@jakefromstatefarm7363 *who asked you to be a hypocrite?*
@@agarthius6863 *I wasn't getting attention thoツ(I'm just used to it.)*
The doctors were legally bound to keep him alive. It was the family’s fault that he had to go through that
Plot twist *he turns into the hulk and joins the avengers*
Boy are u wrong
More like the Hulk from Marvel Ruins
Whitemen who worked for a corporation called Marvel Comics gave us the idea that Exposure to Radiation= Super Powers. (When the Reality is.... Exposure to Radiation = DEATH)
Mr. Black, nobody really believes that exposure to radiation means super powers
For that to happen, dna should be made up of even heavier elements than uranium
Since it's getting close to Hurricane Season. Infographics, what happens when you nuke a hurricane?
The fallout 4 radstorm I guess
Absolutely nothing or the hurricane gets worse
Realistically, you just create a storm that has radiation.
The amount of energy and power in one hurricane far outpaces any current nuclear weapon we have. These storms are also huge. One nuke isn't going to do much. It'll just make it a bit radioactive.
Not much, you just get the same hurricane but radioactive. Hurricanes are huge and their power output is orders of magnitude more than current nuclear bombs can put out.
They did that show already... Or maybe Real Life Lore.
1:34 Nuclear reactions create nuclear chain reactions not nuclear chemical reactions. Chemical reactions involve only the outer shell electrons while nuclear reactions involve the particles of the nucleus and rarely, the inner shell electrons. In a chemical reaction one atom combines with another and create compounds, and vice versa. In a nuclear reaction, the change occurs mainly in the nucleus. This is why such reactions are called 'nuclear'.
It’s not real that his skin is falling off in the first few hours after the exposure as of the interview from nurses he looks normal but with severely red tan on his arms
Don't search photos of that man, they are so gross that you can feel his pain
most photos are fake anyway, i have a few real photos though
Which photos?
@@epicgaymer3256 can I see?
@@ran7820 sure what's your discord?
GamingWithEthan yea coz the real one are even worst🤮 you know when his skin tried to regnerate and failed (?)
This sounds insane. One can only imagine the amount of pain he felt. I kinda remember Bruce Banner (The Hulk) being exposed to radiation in a lab in the first Hulk movie but that was a movie. This is not😱
Bruce survived because of his genetics...his father said to him tat the Hulk saved him
Hulk>Human
I'm both terrified and scared about how he is still suffering after the incident for days to weeks
Wow! this makes being turned into a Feral Ghoul in Fallout seem like a walk in the park. The amount of unfathomable agony this man went through is just incomprehensiblly staggering to hear and to think that people say what he went through much worse then the video describes. Phew, my condolences for all of your suffering. Rest in Peace
Man Receives Highest Dose of Nuclear Radiation - This Is What Happened To Him he gets mad and turn green while going "hulk smash"
Ngl,i was actually kinda looking forward to that, but the rational thinking part of me told me to get real
Gamma and Nuclear are diffrent things
It gets worse when you imagine him screaming "let me die" in japanese
I dont think he can scream anymore, it is probably painfull to even breathe
@@Zecxor i also read somewhere that he could not even close his eyelids, so even if he could not speak after a while, his eyes literally screamed for his suffering to end
@@Zecxor yea but I can picture his soul trying to escape screaming jt
actually he never said he wanted to die, but he did get irate with the staff and demanded to go home. he had no idea how sick he actually was
私を死なせて
Day 1 of the experiment: I will expose myself to high levels of gamma radiation. Tomorrow I'll report results.
Day 37: Apparently I've been in a coma for 5 weeks. When I came back home my mom yelled at me. I became angry and started to turn green. I must've passed out because I woke up in my living room (I think?) and everything was smashed to pieces.
Day 40: Help, the FBI is coming for me!
Did your shirt somehow get ripped off?
oh and are you wearing shorts and is purple?
A little bit of context: They were pressured to complete the task assigned to them. Normal safety procedures are ignored for the sake of completing the task. The doctors didn't treat him like a test subject. They treated him with respect and tried to save him. His heart was beating faster than someone who's running. The doctors are legally required to resurrect him. Later the doctors convinced the family to sign a paper which allows the doctors to not resurrect him. He died when his heart stopped one more time.
They did not mention how his family played a huge role in getting the Doctors to keep trying to save ouchi. They held onto hope and wanted him to survive
Making him suffer more, scumbags
I was disgusted listening to what happened to him. I cant believe a 5 second mistake could do something like this.
They lied tho the doctors tried and were asked to de everything they can to save his life in the end the family signed a DO NOT RESISTANT which means if his heart stops beating again they will not bring him back theres a video that explains how everything went down "The most radioactive man in history" by peaked intrested
He should of been put down. Those doctors where straight up evil!
All the while Fukuyama burns!
should have*
Doctors did nothing wrong
The family was the one begging to keep him alive
The doctors tried everything they could to make the parents sign the do not revive papers, not their fault
Vid inaccurate look up "the most radioactive man in history " by peaked interest
Here's a list of wrong information in this video:
Ouchi was not experienced, in fact he wasn't trained for the task he was given at all and he wasn't told that the concentration of U in the mixture is 18% instead of the usual 5%.
There were no immediate burns, except for damage to his left hand, which was swollen.
Ouchi didn't vomit into the tank, but in the changing room where he passed out.
His skin didn't start coming off until days after arriving at the hospital. Nurses who were taking care of him were fairly optimistic, because he didn''t show a lot of damage at all. He was lucid and talking to people, even joking.
The doctors didn't keep him alive just to experiment on him, his family was insisting on trying everything possible to keep him alive. The doctors allowed for daily visitations, so that they can see his horrific condition and sign a DNR order, but they were stubborn.
The whole depiction of where he begs the doctors to die so they put him in a medical coma is completely made up. He was on heavy doses of sedatives since his eyelids came off - even then his family insisted on keeping him alive.
The medication didn't work on him not because he was so damaged by radiation, but because nothing could stay in his system long enough - he was leaking from everywhere, including heavy amounts of diarrhea and mucus from his intestines, later blood.
The doctors legally had to resuscitate him, because the family didn't want to give up even though he was basically a skeleton.
doctor: “you have 7 minutes and 10 seconds left to live”
me:
?
Infographics
He is dead, boys.
?
well Japanese has a reputation of doing human experiment.
Ever heard of unit 731?
@@theequalizer694 whats that
@Mimi Prays For Fifi Not To Lili ok
@@Panda-hp4tt Long story short, Unit 731 was a medical facility used by Japan during WW2. The place held POW's as well as civilians, and the "Doctors" who worked there performed experiments and methods of torture that were so cruel and inhumane that it made some of the awful things that the Nazis did during the Holocaust look like childs play. Hundreds if not thousands of people lost their lives in unimaginable and awful ways from Unit 731.
@@Protpallyplaya27 And at the end of the War they were pardoned and smuggled off to the USA to continue their work.
It's depressing to know he begged for death And mercy but none was given =(
This video is fundamentally incorrect. They had an unbelievable amount of errors. First of all, the big misconception. The doctors never kept him alive against his will. Some basic research will tell you that he asked the doctors to keep him alive and not give up on him. It was only when his thought process started to deteriorate that he became frustrated with the treatments and asked if he could go home. His family also asked the doctors to do whatever they have to do to keep him alive. By Japanese law, only the family had the rights to allow him to die so the doctors were literally legally obligated to keep him alive. The doctors even tried convincing his family to sign the euthanasia papers by allowing them to see him every day to show that he was only getting worse and that any further treatments would only cause more suffering. The widespread misconception about how the doctors conducted experiments on him is also false. The only “new” treatment that they tried on him was a transfusion of stem cells from a healthy person to an ill one. If I was conducting experiments and only ended up doing one thing, I’d say that to be a pretty miserable failure, so the theory that they conducted experiments on him really makes no sense, both logically and factually.
he never begged for his life, but early on after the incident he begged to go home
He didn't beg for death, he was even cooperative with the doctors and the procedures
He was literally incapable of healing. Why would they ever believe that he could recover?
Nothing really effects me much but this has got my body shivering
I'm warning everyone who's scared by this video, don't look at the photos. This isn't even the worst part.
@@Chris-db5gy yeah... the day 83 photo was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen
What happened to the first guy is truly terrifying. I can't imagine the immense pain he must have felt while those doctors refused to let him die.
It was his family actually. This video is stuffed full of lies and inaccuracies trying to make a scandal to get more views.
stop spreading misinformation
This is so not okay. Doctors should not be able to do this to anybody. Especially without the victim's permission. This is cruel and unusual.
There are some facts to this tragedy that you misrepresented.
By the time he was airlifted to a more well equipped hospital, his skin was not falling off and he was not in pain at all.
In fact, he felt fine for a few days and couldn't grasp the severity of his situation.
It would take days before he began to feel severe pain.
Scientist: lemme overdose this tank with uranium
Scientist watching from Heaven,realizing he just created something that looks like chernobyl: *y e s*
I actually thought.. Wait there's worse nuclear plant accident other than Chernobyl.?
Joi Saita this isn’t exactly a nuclear plant accident, more like a precipitation tank accident.
Hey get back to raiding houses
Joi Saita Chernobyl and Fukushima are the only 2 level 7 incidents. Chernobyl is worse in my opinion.
6:40 and he would walk away smiling, as both his friends just died
The doctors should have restrain their desire to experiment and put him to death. The pain he suffered,...
A much more accurate telling of this story was made by Lady White Rabbit. It's an excellent video if you're interested in learning more details (and more accurate ones at that) about this devastating story.
How unlucky you've Got to be to suffer this and be named Ouchi(really sorry for the guy)
What they did to that man to keep him alive was nothing short of criminal torture.
No scientific discovery is worth completely abandoning one's humanity.
The family asked not the doctors
Those doctors should have been striped of their license
Why
I disagree.
I see a lot of people criticizing the doctors and nurses. Most of the time we’re not allowed to do what we want or what we think is best. These peoples families wanted everything done to keep them alive. Please lets not judge so quickly.
Officialy according to the law, the doctors were illegally examining him, as Hisashi Ouchi refused to stay alive and didn't allow the doctors to examine him. Yet, the doctors were ignoring his rejections and hurted him phisically. This indicates abuse to Hisashi Ouchi, and therefore the doctors should have been arrested.
Japan's law might be different tho. Especially in the past
@Rahul But does Ouchi's family own his body? No, only Ouch does, therefore only himself can give the doctors permission to go on which he didn't.
Untrue, he did have an out burst pretty early on but actually apologized shortly after. He did want to move forward with treatment but was also extremely heavily sedated and given powerful painkillers toward the worst part of the ordeal. At one point he was possibly brain dead according to one member of staff but a more optimistic member of a higher position rejected this conclusion though the evidence was pretty clear. Read A Slow Death, it’s got all the facts written in a straightforward manner and it’s less sensational than how the story is often told. Point is, he never rejected treatment
he and his family wanted the medical team to do everything they could to save him. the doctors warned almost immidiately after his health started to decline that it wasnt likely he'd survive.
at some point he did become angry and wanted to go home but it was more of a "i'm fine why are you keeping me" irritation
the medical staff has a obligation to do all they can to save lives. both him and his family wanted them to do everything they could to save him no matter what.
this is false. the family took ages to actually let the doctors stop so he could finally pass away.this was years ago,lawa were different too.
My friend told me about this, I went to the wikipedia page and read it, it was extremely brutal and sad
This is really a very sad and depressing story.
What makes me mad is that he didn’t beg to die he wanted to live and the doctors did an amazing job keeping him alive for the 83 or 87 days