The Most Painful Death Ever (VIEWER DISCRETION) 

I think the bucket was the true evil all along.

this is the only video on this subject that discussed how much they continued to humanize him through treatment. there's this idea they were using him as a guinea pig but all of them wanted him to walk out of there again. Telling him the weather and news while he couldn't speak, just. This shit got me tearing up at work I had to finish listening at home

@@colinwalker4824 Nah, the true evil is the arrogance of man thinking THE HAND MIXING OF URANIUM WAS SAFE!!!

​@@reasorlloyd1 More like the arrogance of a company trying to save a few bucks and didn't bother to manage their progress

Honestly, I think the medical staff became hyper-attached to him in a way, more like he was a friend or relative rather than a patient. It might have very well clouded their judgment, but can you blame them? They saw how kind he was, what he endured to stay alive for his family. Their days cycled around him. They were close to his family, his very loving wife, his little son. Maybe at a certain point they refused to believe that all the treatment and suffering would be for nothing. You could see in later interviews that they were heartbroken about his death.

These "people" applying their own twisted spins on the story for clicks, views and a quick buck are the truly evil ones.

Edit: I hadn't finished the video when I made the comment It's still appalling that at no point the people in charge thought it would be best to let him rest. There were multiple clear points of no return for his recovery, where even if he somehow pulled through, there was no way he would be able to live a normal, or even a comfortable life.

@@floron7777 iirc the media mainly focused on the "look how hard these doctors are trying to keep this dying man alive" aspect. Correct me if i'm wrong.

It is the same thing in the corporate word. Many so called management experts always blames the result or the people who were charged with delivering the result but never the root cause especially if the plan is already faulty at the get go.

I'm convinced the people in the comments didn't watch anything other than reddit TTS videos on the matter and nothing else. not even the NIH paper on the matter

Ngl this is a real case of "truth is more terrifying than fiction". I can't think of any horror film that goes to the depth and detail of pain and suffering he probably experienced, I don't think our brains can even comprehend or imagine what he went through, its one of those things that's simply so off the scale that we can't even imagine it, let alone put it to film/media.

The thing I can't help but wonder is at what point before he was officially pronounced dead did he actually die? With the intensity of bleeding he had, there's no way his body could still be alive from that, right? I would think mass and fatal hypoxia would set in at some point before then.

​​@@chiefbeef9905The closest thing in the world that I think would come close to this is with stuff like Cordyceps. The bug is still conscious as its body deteriorates and becomes food for the Cordyceps. Even then, that entire thing doesn't last almost 3 MONTHS and their organs aren't literally melting.

​@chiefbeef9905 Have you ever seen the house of wax? They were basically turned into mannequins while still alive. The skin peeling off made me think of that movie.

Its basically zombies without the eating people and being consious

But the primary issue it seems is that the victim did not want to be saved, he did not want to go through this extent of medical procedures, just to crawl back to life. he wished for death and the doctors that tried so desperately to save him delayed it as long as they could at every possible moment, he lived in a perpetual hell for months… And that is on the doctors. Don’t get me wrong. The doctors had noble intentions, but they should’ve listened to their patient. They should’ve granted his wishes rather than do what they thought was best.

@@jordanholla5599 I haven't watched the video since then again, but didn't he want to try to live throughout the whole time he could communicate?

@@jordanholla5599I may have missed it in the video but where did he say he wanted to die?

​@@jordanholla5599Come back here, and tell us where he said he wanted to die.

@@jordanholla5599 i don't think you watched the video lmao

Same

It doesnt quite beat out Alzheimers for my number 1 spot, but it definitely made the top three.

​@@owenlealat least only if you're not aware you have that condition :/

Totally agree

Honestly it's gotta be at least one of the top fears for anyone who's heard of this story

it's really sweet and sad but yeah she's a real one for that

The wife ?the sister she was always game and willing to do anything to save her brother since she was a match to he’s body ,you can tell she loved him so much ,my respects to the sister and the rest of he’s family ,may he rest in peace 🙏🏻

Gangster is such a cringe word to describe a wife not crying in front of her dying husband

@@Lobardan this is kinda real too lmao

She was stoic; a tenet of Japanese society.

He lived????

You got a link?

hang on run that back. are you fr??

do you know his name?

Elaborate

i believe that when he was bathed he felt like 0,1% of the pain he felt in the last days

I Hope there's a heaven just for people like him. I hope he can see how his life affected medicine and saved so many people and more importantly I hope he can see his family. I don't care what happens to me after I die but it just seems so cruel for people to die like this without closure

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Read the book in grade school.

the family folded 10 000 cranes

Imagine if she folded 999.

I instantly got what the cranes were for and yeah, it got me too…. ❤️

Same

Seriously, what a wonderful woman. I hope her the best in her life

Also the fact that she refused to let her son watch his dad's deteriorating condition. That kind of thing would traumatize anyone, especially a kid. I was amazed at how strong she was

The part where she finally allows herself to cry. That got me.

I really do hope she's had a good life after this whole ordeal. She's a queen.

And the way she always emphasized how strong and handsome he was! What a loving wife

That, and the horrible practices around radioactive materials.

Goes to show, never be helpful.

@@__-be1gk It's so true. Being helpful at work has only ever gotten me roped into more bullshit that I would've never had to deal with if I just kept my mouth shut lol.

@@lagunkaz There is a saying in my country that roughly translates to "The work goes where it is done.". People who are too helpful in their job or never learned to say "No" will get screwed eventually, be it mentally, physically or both.

​@@Dwight_Lee Or don't be complacent. Better yet, know when to say no to unsafe work. But OSHA, OH&S, and Japan's equivalent are sadly written in the blood of accident victims.

What’s this book called , I read this in like 3 rd grade but can’t remember

@@OfficialBizz77 lol same, and the reason I didn't say it on the original comment was cus I was too lazy to try to find it, but I looked into it and it's called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

@@idk_whatimdoing_1384 thanks for the book rec

I remember reading this book in fourth grade. It was a sad read for sure.

Oh wow. That's really interesting (and really Japanese as we are often superstitious and traditional). I didn't know that. I remember making origami cranes with my great aunt when I was 5 while my grandma was in the hospital thankfully recovering from a stroke. As a kid I understood it was something to do while we were waiting for her, but reading this now at 20 years old makes even more sense and is beautiful and very sad at the same time. Like still smiling even when faced with serious illness and death.

if i were a doctor on that ward, i think that would have been worse than anything else. the utter silence, and the full awareness of mr. ouchi's absence. that would break me, i think.

Bro why'd you comment this I'm actually like nauseous from how tragic this all is

Another story is that the doctors kept him alive against his will to experiment on his body and torture him and revived over 100 times (Total bs)

me too! heard the exact same thing. i also used to believe the photo they spread around was him 😕 bless tho ❤

Heart and brain kept in tact for the torture..

@@samoriab5999 It's like a "survivorship bias" kind of thing...you can't live without either....if you didn't leave them alive you'd be dead before the rest of you died

i like to think it stayed like that was the love from his family 🥺

The cardiac muscle cells and neurons are actually pretty resistant to radiation, so it's not suprising. For one, they are deep inside the body and second, unlike most cells, they never get replaced. So if damage to the DNA of these cells makes mitosis impossible, as long as the DNA is intact enought to sustain basic funtions of these cells, it won't really degrade the functionality of the heart or nervous system.

@@Kapik1081 thats great your heart and nervous system remains intact while the rest of your body rots so you feel everything...

Truly gut wrenching, cannot imagine the pain he must of felt… i had thoughts of “when will the family and doctor agree on a merciful death” at MULTIPLE points in the video and it only gets worse. And even if he had brain damage, we could only hope that it was enough to become somewhat painless for him

Yeah I kinda winced when he said it even though I agreed lol

i read this just as he said that

"god I hope he was practically dead" is just a harrowing thought. The thought of blood being manually pumped, air being forced into and out of the lungs and skin being replaced daily. You can only wish in hindsight that his brain stopped processing.

There are worse fates than death...with luck, we (each of us!) won't discover our own special one at any point in our lives. Remember to take a moment in our day to be grateful for what we have...even if what we have maybe kinda sucks for the moment, at least it's not THAT poor man's fate! Oy. I do totally see why the staff and family were so hopeful. I almost agree that his body was the 'crystallized representation of his will' for having lived as long as he did, or whatever that nice nurse said. That fellow was a polite badass, and I totally accept her explanation as at LEAST being the 'metaphorical reason' for his extended survival. A 'proper will to live' can truly help us to live through things that might otherwise kill us, so there really is 'something' to 'surviving because he *decided* he would survive'. Sadly, his determination and spirit weren't /quite/ up to the task of living through a nuclear flash at such short, PERSONAL ranges...but frankly, 'just living as long as he did' really says he was a determined, powerful spirit anyway. Not surviving was "Reality not being able to be overcome by his will alone", and is nothing like 'he didn't try to live'. I mean...he all but 'did magic to himself' to survive as long as he did, but he needed REALLY serious, far-reaching magics that were just NOT available to overcome the wounds he had been dealt. I mean...remember/realize that radiation is a "3D sunburn". Not just the upper layer burns, it goes /all/ the way through us/. That was truly a LOT to ask for him to recover from. I remain very impressed by the strength of his spirit. Should I find my own life at risk, I hope I can summon even HALF as much spiritual strength to help see me through my danger!

That's the sad part--they were wrong. His body wasn't regenerating and the "new tissue" was basically cancer and served no vital function.

@@linkeddevices Oh…damn. So it was false hope

@@linkeddevices fr they were torturing this man

@@livdempsey8015 not torture, they were keeping their promise and aimed for that slight sliver of potential hope that he could rebound from the symptoms by replacing what was being ruined by the radiation

@@l..l_ i guess

Sal? It's you? I'm Plant

@@myspleenisbursting4825 no fuckin way, i just saw nhloki the other day on a vid too

@@sal6695 Lmao

@@sal6695what is the lore here behind you and plant

The paper cranes broke my heart because of that myth, especially after reading that story of the girl with leukemia trying to fold all the paper cranes and dying before she could finish

i thought this same thing i literally cried

@@notbilly7498YES 😢 tears in my eyes. fantastic book but so sad

​@@notbilly7498 that book was so sad :(

I cried so hard at that. Simply heartbreaking.

Por que no los dos? You can think, "yuck" and "oh, you poor bastard 😢" at the same time.

Just to be clear, cause your comment phrasing might give people the wrong idea, but propofol is also used to prepare humans for anaesthesia. It's a very common drug used for surgery in humans as well. It's not some extreme drug only for animals

@stansman5461 thanks for clarity, I wasn't sure how common its use still was in human medicine so I didn't mention it

Sounds like something out of Gemani home entertainment

@@justinsinger2505 couldn’t have said it better myself.

This reminds me of Kite from Hunter x Hunter after he becomes a corpse training dummy, by Neferpitou. Gon really does hope to save him, but he's beyond saving then.

@@punyama5902 i love hxh

I witnessed exactly that when my father-in-law had a massive brain aneurysm that left him brain dead. Machines and medication kept his body going for organ donation purposes. It was weird to watch his chest rise and fall as if he were still “alive”/breathing on his own.

Really that is the true evil here. As if they hadn't been so careless with how they treated probably one of the most dangerous substances currently known to man, this wouldn't have happened but instead, they were behind and wanted to rush the process for profit and the results were catastrophic.

THIS. People's been blaming either the doctors or the family (who wished him to survive). BUT the actual evil is the corporation he worked for, they failed the safety measurements/protocol, the first reason of Hisashi & his co-workers' death by radiation.

​@@FauZhee who in their mind would even blame the doctor for doing their work? Also data they collected may help them develop new ways or improve current ways of treatment to potentially save future victims of such incidents.

Most evil can be described that way.

I think it was just negligence born from laziness. Calling it “evil” to me implies intent.

I knew about that from the book about the girl who was doing the same thing after she got sick from the Hiroshima bomb radiation (I forget it’s name). When he said about the cranes my heart broke. Edit: not remembering the title of the book was really bugging me so I found it. It’s called “Sadako and the thousand paper cranes” by Eleanor Coerr. It’s based on a true story too

That was on an ER episode

@@baileyellison642I remember reading it back in 4th grade, while the cranes themselves have stuck in my mind I don't remember most of the details - I really oughta re-read it after this video.

I thought everyone knew this

Way to copy the same comment for the most part someone already posted that's at the very top.... Be original and stop seeking attention and likes from strangers online to the point where you will say the same thing someone with lots of likes said. It's just like all the other attention seeking clowns like a bunch of bottom feeders that are all throughout social media

The boss only got 3 Sieverts compared to Hisashi's 20 unfortunately. At least they got imprisoned for it.

it's truly surprising how, with any fatal accident (especially nuclear ones), people never seem to blame the company's negligence that led to that point. Its somehow always the workers fault, the family's or the doctor's fault, but never the executives that were guilty of the accident happening in the first place.

​@@nyom6378 It's sick. People are always like: well why did you do it unsafely in the first place? What, you never been at work and been pressured to do something an unsafe or incorrect time for time and cost reasons? Do you work at some absolute utopia because everywhere I've worked has pressured me to do things in incorrect and unsafe ways for time and cost reasons.

@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustachehe’s just referring to the common worker in ouchi’s place being pressured into doing something unsafe is *super* common and should be the higher ups responsibility

@@nifynitm Yeah that's also what I said. That boss sucks

Even if he would have managed to survive through everything (which was already next to impossible in and of itself), the psychological shock and trauma still probably would’ve been too overwhelming and killed him anyways.

it's entirely plausible (and in fact, quite probable) that even if he'd survived, he would have been left extremely disabled. he would have suffered extreme brain damage, potentially would have required a feeding tube until his digestive system rebuilt itself, and may have had sensory loss considering we don't know whether his nervous system was intact. even if his body survived and healed, his brain may never have recovered. and, all that aside, you're right, if he'd happened to live through that and make a full recovery, the trauma of what he experienced would have permanently changed him. poor guy didn't deserve any of this. i fear he may have been doomed from the start, though i applaud the doctors for doing their best. rip, hisashi.

As a disabled person I'm glad he didn't in some regards. He would've been (assumedly) dealing with brain damage, probably unable to walk, would have definitely been placed on a feeding tube, and I'm assuming he would've faced dramatic loss of his senses. Even without all that he would be traumatized forever. I can't imagine being put through all that pain and being hooked up the machines that hurt you and constantly being watched over and touched. He would probably never trust jobs again, let alone doctors. And that's not even mentioning the shock he would probably instantly die from when he would realize the sheer horror of what happened to him.

Thank you for writing this. I wouldn't have come across it otherwise. I think this just made me think beyond myself and I'm so glad you wrote this comment.

the Russian expert was right, just that what he really said was "STUPIDS! That Arm Should Had Been Amputated In The Beginning!" Russians Don't waste time and lolly gag like most... ACTION ACTION ACTION! The expert here just threw up his arm is defeat! "IDIOTS!" "Vat Vere Zu All Doing? Did Da Vadiation Make-a-you all Zelepping?"

Yeah from what I've heard before this whole thing sounded like it was some crazy doctor doing it for "science"

meh. I think that was just a cover story. The japanese are known for using humans in unspeakable experiments. Ever heard of "Unit 731" in WW2? The things they did........... it's worse than anything you read the Germans did : (

this was really significant for the medical and scientific community. im sure it has impacted how radiation is applied to the body in medical situations and more specifically how to best treat those procedures.

I really hope this was the truth.

YES! I heard it was experimental at one point and going into this video i wasn't expecting the amount of work and compassion that went into trying to save this man. I'm happy his family was with him 😢

I would check out before the end of the first week when skin started to come off, even earlier if they told me about the chromosome damage... This really is one of the cruelest science experiments to ever take place.

@@davidicke2415 yeah, I mean I get wanting to save a life and doing your absolute best work. But, personally I think they forgot to weigh the Do no harm part of the oath with that. For me, I would save my family and myself the torture of this experience.

@@ssg25uret6 Honestly, i agree. That was very intense stuff, and if it were me i would've never kept going long enough to let it get that far. Even if i had to convince them or my family didn't like it, the end flag was slowly already set in stone once things went "very" downhill...especially considering how much the family cared enough to stay there in order to keep an eye on things. It may not be the sweetest thing to do, but i would rather them put me down then continue in such a tormented level of degrees in the name of hope.

Exactly, I would never want a patient of mine to go through this - especially when you know he will not survive.

@@ssg25uret6Do no harm means providing life-saving medical procedures when a person in the hospital needs them, unless they signed a DNR. They kept him alive because they were legally required to. Letting him die or killing him is against the law.

thank you for disclosing the search keywords, time to see terrible things

@Dane M. As a registered nurse, I had to do a rotation of a burn unit in my senior year. Not my patient, I'll try to be brief. This man was 18 years old Worked in a company, ,something happened and he ended up being covered with burning hot asphalt. Third degree burns on everything except his penis. They had to put wires holding his fingers apart so that they wouldn't curl into claws and fuse together. The look in his eyes was pure terror. After school that day, I drove home thinking : I wonder if we know too much, but yet not enough. This kind of suffering still exsists in our world, and I wish we could do more, or perhaps, do better.

Some people can't let go of their loved ones.

@@zombienursern4909 What happened to him? Did he end up surviving?

​@Zombie NurseRN how is he doing now? did he at least somewhat recover?

@@zombienursern4909 what happened? Is he still alive?

Yes! This comment just right, it’s so sad that people use this story and tout the “picture” as a scary story and not this story of tragedy, love, humanity, and more. It’s heartbreaking.

Precisely. He really humanizes these stories that we so often read about as "creepy tales." It's easy to forget that the subjects of these stories are people who suffered.

@@shinyhoarder yeah turning literal murders and tragedies into aesthetics or making it "creepy" makes me lose faith in humanity

This is the one case where a horror tale fits. This could be the worst thing that ever happened to a person in human history

@@wereallveryloud Agreed, but i mean horror tale in the sense that some people make it seem almost like a fictional novel. Wendigoon does a great job at keeping everything real and true rather than amping up a story for more attention.

I didn't expect this to be so heartbreaking, I'm glad that it didn't go the "ghost story" route. The way that he treated them the real people that they are makes this video so much better

The story is enough by itself, no need to try and make it "spooky"

@@pedrofelipefreitas2666 exactly, what happened is already horrific enough

Mr. Ballen covered this story years ago and was extremely compassionate, respectful and empathetic about it, but you may not have seen that. However, I love how in-depth this guy is about all of the details and the length he goes to explain things like the way you're supposed to handle uranium etc. So kudos to him, awesome job!

I imagine that there are a few videos that take the same tone as a JCS clone video. “You don’t believe how painful this man’s death was!”

Truly. I cried a few times through this video but when Wendigoon mentioned she didn't cry to stay strong for him I had to pause and let it out. I could only hope to be an ounce as strong as she was.

Why are you subscribed to shoeonhead and sargon of akkad? The internet is supposed to be polarized

@@LEWIS_sanders_9 it's always good to keep your mind clear of bias and to understand as many points of view as possible, or to just treat everyone as humans beings with rights to their opinions and merits of their own...

@@daipovs Indeed, I hope I could be as strong as her, with a faith and a love as relentless as hers. She's a role model to every human being.

@@matheuss886 centrist

I hate you for making me laugh

Hearing and seeing the machines and feeling medicine flow through...

In the spy-novel Shibumi, there's a scene where a character was strapped to a chair and tortured. (Warning: grievous bodily injury description) The torturers gave him some drugs that ended up numbing the pain, and he was horrified that he could *hear* his bones cracking despite not really "feeling" it.

it was all horrible

​@@chingqing0504you don't feel medicine flow through you, for the most part. Some medicines are cold, and you'll feel that in your arm, but otherwise nah, not really. Injection sites sting as the medicine dissipates, but again, you don't feel it flow throughout your body.

At least with the smell he likely wouldn’t have been able to by the time stuff got really bad. Smell is mainly reliant on the mucous membranes. If they are destroyed so would your sense of smell.

If you read “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” it shows how the cranes are believed to work from the perspective of a Japanese person.

yes this is what i was thinking of. if really hit for me too

Hey can I get a TLDR on this

​@@Geidi174 It's a single paragraph

@@Geidi174 if you fold 1,000 paper cranes you get one wish. But for the story a Japanese girl who lived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki got leukemia from the radiation and her family helped her fold the cranes.

"Hawaiian aesthetic" 2023 in a nutshell

You present a huge market potential for Tiki BDSM bars

boog

It feels like when your dad talks about his stories from the army: Sometimes disturbing, but it feels safe when he is telling them.

I always chuckle to myself when I realize there are viewers of Wendigoon who don't know

Right?! He has such a gift. He had me tear up hearing him describe the wife finally released the tears

He was a guinea pig

​@@kristanricketts5028at least he helped with cancer research

I’d rather the video be 2 minutes long

@@Level.2.Gigapod Why?

"Sometimes, dead is better." ---Pet Sematary

The problem that you don’t know when it’s better to let a soul go because in very rare cases a miracle happen and that’s why they try till the end

​@stormbornapostle5188 Yo, quoted that elsewhere in this comment section, because holy shit is it relevant. Seriously, though. All of us are going to die, no matter what we or anyone else do. Sometimes it's really, really not worth it to argue.

​@@helmiyoussef3741This man saw a Chernokov light. There are no miracles at that level of radiation exposure.

these doctors tried to keep him alive and were villanized, but if they had put him down beforehand, they would have also been villanized. In situations like these, there really are no right choices or courses of action.

I know. My brothers would be like "good luck"

I think if this happened to someone I love I would end it for them

Hisashi's whole family sounds wonderful. They're definitely a big part of why he survived as long as he did, just through the moral support alone

Yeah.

his family caused him to have one of the worst deaths you could have, if they just let die, instead them and the doctors made his death way worse would you like to die like that and sit in a bed getting worse and worse because there is no cure or medical care you can have he had more if he was in a town where a nuke dropped he still wouldnt get the same level of radiation that he was exposed too

@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jk i don't know what you're trying to do here but that was not funny at all

​@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jk from your comment to your name, to your personality to your way of thinking, i ponder, who let you exist

​@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jkbrothers gonna look back on these comments in a few years and have so much shame

@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jk imagine being such a loser

​@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jkYou must be so sad and discontent in life, that you've gone unhinged, going down the path countless other armchair edgelords have gone, random, heartless comments for shock value, for attention. Like a crackhead, it is a drug for you. Attention keeps you happy, serving to detach you from your harsh reality. Because, in reality, you are very sad.

The Bible is already pretty horrible, so it's not far

@Vulpes at least the Bible has a happy ending lol

Like a modern day Book of Job..

@@thelonehussar6101 the happy ending where most of the world's population either dies or is thrown into Hell?

Those are both the same thing 😂

i think he was in the "walking ghost" phase, which means that his body recieved so much radiation that it completley neutralized the system that produces new cells. since cells always die, that means that your cell count would continue to lower without increasing, which is just horrifying to imagine

@@John_Gillman Literally decomposing as you're alive. I know the joke of "as soon as you're born you start dying" but this man's body was going through what happens AFTER death, but he was still alive.

You mean the attempt to regenerate itself and/or repair the damages done by the radiation? I mean all human beings are works of miracles from inside out. The body, the conscious mind to the sub-conscious and un-conscious; you name it! The majority of us overlook what miracles are...Many would define it as something science can't explain the what why where etc... and all the time it's a good result of something that's doubte by all. Now reverse that and what do we get? will it still be considered as a miracle?

@@John_Gillman But, despite his chromosomes being completely and utterly obliterated into irrecognizable blobs under the micrograph, the doctors documented he _did_ have these tiny white spots of regrowing skin on his bare flesh, and the endoscopy photo shown when he started bleeding internally showed -- to the eye -- pretty big round spots of regrowing mucus membrane, compared to the skin spots! Absolutely amazing how that was even possible, however horrifying his overall fate was.. 🙄

The various types of flesh/tissue are always growing and dyeing, just look at your fingernails. They mostly do it at different rates, you can grow muscle faster than the bones they move. That's why children should have plenty exercise. Before it is too late for them to catch up. Let them use their bodies for their own excitement and benefit.

Japanese people dont tend to show emotion to each other in that way. so yes its horrific and that poor woman deserves to have broken down, she must have so many times when she was away from him, and the strength she showed was beyond human, its part of Japanese culture not to show these feelings publicly. The trauma every single one of the people involved went through is beyond imagining

How brave, I hope her strength helped him in his final hours

First Wendigoon video to make me cry, for real

@@darkembers1 dude you’re not an expert on japanese culture. wtf are you talking about.

Same

I'd argue this was exploited with a pro life angle. I guess it's to be expected, but the clear bias is disappointing.

​​@@simplifiedspike9702 you can argue that, but you would be wrong (edit spelling mistake)

I completely respect Wendigoon’s telling of the story

@@TheLuckyDime but there comes a point where it needs to stop, when it becomes too much for the person caring for the victim and the victim themself. To decide if this persons suffering is worth it or not. That's why when someone runs over an animal on the road, they kill it so it doesn't suffer. Personally, if I was Hisashi I would want to die, so then my family didn't have to see me become worse and watch me suffer and doctors didn't have to work as hard as they did. But I would also want to live through it. So that scientists and doctors would be able to treat others if they had a similar condition.

It's still explotation. Just own up to it. There's nothing wrong with it, but that is what it is. And no amount of copium will change that.

I know that this has probably to do with finantial necessities and probably a lot of ignorance and naiveness, but this is why i would never allow my partner to work on such harmful and dangerous conditions, i would ratter be poorer and with a worst finantial condition than to give a chance of a loved one to die or suffer. I'm not blaming her, to be clear.

@@giorno4859 Near the start, it was stated that Hisachi (I think that's how you spell it) never did that procedure where they mix the uranium in a bucket. Maybe neither he nor his wife knew how dangerous his job really was. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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It was esp tragic that she was so selfish she subjected him to this instead of loving him enough to let him die with dignity. He said he didn't want to be their guinea pig and repeatedly expressed his wish to just die the pain was so excruciating, but they entirely ignored his wishes until he could no longer speak and then just kept right on with torture worse than probably any human has ever experienced. Medical ABUSE and Perverse treatment of a human body. You can't tell me his family "loved" him. Love isn't selfish like his family and the medical team was. Wednigoons spin on this story is terrible. The doctors did exactly the opposite of their job-limit human suffering and this is widely acknowledged in medical and layman circles as a terrible thing to have done to Hisashi despite what misery his wife was willing to subject him to...knowing there was a 99.9999% chance he'd die. And he did die after 90 excruciating days. All of this was for nothing but experimental discoveries.

@@Janellabelle Are you serious, did you even watch the video? The doctors did all they could with the technology available at the time and such a thing had never happened before, the doctors and the family geniuenly believed he had a chance. Do you really think they went ''We don't care if he's definitely gonna die, keep torturing him.''?

Maybe that's what kept him alive for so long

I remember hearing about that paper crane thing in _L.A. Noire_ ironically enough.

I remember hearing about that in pre-school! I remember my art teacher had 1,000 origami cranes hanging from the ceiling.

I'm glad somebody mentioned it. My sisters went to a Japanese immersion school, and the oldest visited Japan proper and told us all sorts of cultural stories like this one.

The 1000 cranes is a wish to kill all Americans. When you understand that it's like 😟

wendi’s coverage focuses on empathy and i love him for it

Probably not for such a long period of time.

It most likely had more to do with the fact that the cells simply did not process them, his bloodpressure was too low or he had too bad bloodflow. Our idea of how drugs affect our perception of pain is based on otherwise functioning bodies, not bodies going through imminent failure everywhere all at once since no other condition can replicate radioactive poisoning.

At that point it’s almost time to just let the person die. They aren’t going to get better and they’re hurting that bad, they need to give him a “nurses dose”.

And yet women say child birth hurts….

Well, I immediately can think of exposed staff of Chernobyl powerplant and first-response firefighters (who were VERY close the open, burning reactor)

Yeah many fake News about this Case sadly

Doctors take an oath to do no harm. If they thought there was any chance of survival they were simply doing their job treating what they could. Trust me they didn’t want any part of this

I see a lot of people saying " *I* wouldn't want to be kept alive" But he did. He most likely wanted to survive no matter what, no matter what it cost him, just for him to be able to see his child again

They had to. An important piece of information that often gets left out of this story is that, due to laws and paperwork, they were legally bound to keep him alive as that’s what his family wanted. The doctors recommended many times to the family to sigh a do not resuscitate order but they continued to refuse, despite how much pain and suffering Satoshi was going through, and how he had zero chance of recovering.

Hahaha wait till you watch all quiet on the western front

i’m not wendigoon, but i see your comment and i think it’s beautiful how inspired humans can get from other humans :) i completely agree how Isaiah handled this case with such respect and beautiful sensitivity, i bet ur dissertation is just as great, cheers! 🤍

@@foreverain.(this is my main account, OP was a temporary account of mine) thank you. the question i'm asking is essentially whether the doctors could or should have taken a different course of action with regards to keeping him alive, and i'm strongly leaning towards no. they couldn't. they treated hisashi as best as they could. there is a myriad of evidence in support, as well as against, and i'll appreciate the opinion of anyone who thinks the doctors should have let him pass. but i think that hisashi was proud of the fact he fought until the end.

@@foreverain.also, side note, his name is Isaiah? how'd i not know this, lol.

If nothing else, it's a testament to the horrors of radiation sickness, and the massive amounts of resources needed to help a patient

​@@metalmusicspedupmoron.

@@metalmusicspedup he was their experiment.

​@@metalmusicspedupif the patient is willing to experience Hell in order to see tomorrow. The most we can do is make it feel less like Hell- the doctors helping my friend suffering through her body shutting down at age 8 that wanted to make it through New Years Eve.

He was a living science experiment for them. They had never seen such a crazy thing before. They wanted to learn all that they could from it.

strongest man ever is wild

@@jrobyt who else yk enduring this for 83 days??

@@jrobyt 😭

The motivator of a family who you want to return to is far more powerful than any other. Money, fame, women, the strongest fighters fight for their loved ones.

He will see his family again in heaven or whatever afterlife he believes in.

No body knew at the last time if he felt alive at all or in a toomb of HELLISH AGONY.

I am in the same boat. I honestly thought it was all about the experimenting. But this- They did everything. It's a bitter end, but every single person did their best to help.

there'd be nothing to experiment on. the only way you could properly study him would be an autopsy, which would require him to be dead. and also it costs money and takes resources away from other patients

Agreed. I still think keeping him alive was the wrong move, but I cannot blame them and I won't be a brainlet and say it was some government conspiracy.

wendigoon is the right person to tell this kind of story. i knew about the more humane side bc i've read about it first, but those channels really like to sensationalize on gore, pain and shock

They tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it didn't even matter.

@@VG-fk6nkWasn’t funny 💀

@@CRYCITIZED That one thing... I don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard I try...

As Hisashi himself stated, he is not a guinea pig. They didn't listen.

@@jogrant3851someone didn’t watch the video

I don't want to sound goopy but I'm positive that man's soul is in heaven.

no matter what you believe, we can say with certainty that he'll never be in pain again

​@@MaiaEmpyreanHe sounded like a good man before the incident, if any of us deserve bliss it seems he does. He served his share of Hell

@@psychotropicstate True. Jesus definitely understood his suffering.

There is a legend in Japan that a thousand paper cranes folded would grant any wish. 😢

So true, I never really realized how sensationalized this case is until I heard Wendigoon treat it so somberly (while also giving respect to the doctors and family).

Junko deserves so much more respect then she’s ever gotten. It’s bad enough the perpetrators barely received any jail time, and one of their mothers destroyed her grave. People need to remember these individuals suffered unnecessarily and incomprehensibly

Came here to second this comment. The most respectful and truth honoring coverings of this story I’ve heard told

Agreed I’m in aeiou

i cant stand people who fetishize junko's death, disgusting, unempathetic human beings.

Yeah :(

^^ One of the few who gets it.

Doctors are the reason people can carry on, and humans are unbelievably selfish in that they see hope and want the injured to carry on for a longer life. That's what makes the demonization and slandering so revolting to me, these people yapping are the ones demanding help from the same people they apparently hate.

You're right, this is the more important issue at hand

I do not blame the docs or his family but the moment he said "I'm not a guinea pig " he made his intentions clear. I don't understand why they just didn't let him go when he was going through so much pain

It fits your Username

Respectfully done, I mean aside from the shameless sponsorship at the start, just after introducing the story of the victim

​@@alejandrocastillolopez6268 grrrrr how dare he want to make money from his career grrrrr

@@thedoggo6618 no, I mean the sponsorship would be fine, but the way he did it in this specific video is super tasteless. Like he says "We'll talk about the tragic story of a man who survived a lethal dose of radiation, and how his agony lasted 81 days... BUT FIRST LET'S SAY A WORD ABOUT MY SPONSOR"

@@alejandrocastillolopez6268 He does that in every video. It's called a hook.

same...

hey same pfp :00

Right? We don't even think about the trillions of little chemical processes happening every day, or the trillions of cells and symbiotic bacteria that sustain us.

Really freaky. Wonder if I'll be alive until we finally have the full picture of how things work inside us.

the human body is so stupid. we can survive in conditions like this for an insane amount of time literally rotting to death but we can also fall awkwardly in our own shower, bump our head in the wrong way, and be stone cold dead in an hour

@@mongrel_97 *instantly

Mainly just how amazing our brains are, that we can understand our bodies to the degree that we can save each other from death for so long.

Before my mum passed, I had hope that she would get through it. It wasn't until her last breath that I broke down crying, realising what had happened.

yeah i just cried hearing that part

Same. When she finally cried when seeing his body, that broke me.

Oh i cried too. had to take breaks from it. I lost my fiance in 2019 so i know grief but i feel like this story really was just horrible. For him, his wife, kids and family. I just can’t even imagine.

shes a horrendously selfish woman for making him endure that.

honestly it like, that's the part that made me sick to my stomach. the way the body still fought so hard to keep going and heal through that... amazing.

The man had such a wrecked amount of genetic material that whatever new “skin” grew was most certainly cancerous. Cancerous being relative to damage, not spread. Dead cells, obviously, can’t propagate, nor sustain, cancer. What an entombed horror his body became. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

As someone who doesn't have more than a general education on chromosomes, but actually cared to understand it, my reaction to that shot was: "Oh. They're gone." Like, there's obviously no structure left there, how could anyone think that that's not catastrophic damage… :Ü™

@Darker7 catastrophic is an understatement. I don't think there's many other examples of chromosomes getting destroyed so hard they literally fused together

@@debrabarber3483 catastrophic is a pretty fucking dramatic word. Catastrophic means it's over. What the fuck

Yeah. I know the title of the video spoils it lol, but. Idk. I was hoping he’d live every time one of those rays of hope would come along.

yeah i found myself hoping that he would live by the end even though i knew that he didn’t

Exactly!! I know how this is going to end, but every time I hear about the new cells growing, I get some weird sense of hope, I can’t imagine how he felt.

I’m finding myself wondering if he could have been saved in 2023

Only stupid people who know nothing about the matter would have any hope he would live after recieving that dose of radiation lmfao

I was straight up just bawling when the wife finally broke down after Ouchi had passed.

i can't even imagine how much it must've pained her to keep a smile on her face while knowing that her lover wouldn't be able to pull through, but still managing to extract every single last drop of hope to maintain that smile. although horrifying, it takes a special kind of person to be able to endure that.

Actually, you're probably right, OP. Like. Literally. When my grandfather passed away, his doctors all said that he was literally only alive because of me and my sister. That was the only way to explain how he lived as long as he did. I'm so proud to be his granddaughter. And omg. I was sobbing so hard. That wife - I can't even imagine what it took to get out of bed, much less smile. That's a soul mate, for sure.

Years ago, a co worker told me of a woman whose son was dying. Every day she would pray in the hospital chapel, then put on a smile an enter her son's room cheerfully. She never shed a tear in her dying son's presence.

@@charlieberry7562 different types of strength.