The Most Painful Death Ever (VIEWER DISCRETION)

[@meme-madeproductions1959]

the fact that people blame the doctors and family, BUT NOT the management at the facility who were actually responsible, is astounding and awful

[@GloomGaiGar]

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

[@sarahni]

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.

[@salamantics]

@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.

[@speedmaster001]

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.

[@aidanmatthewgalea7761]

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

[@MysterWacht88]

His body rotting as he was still alive and potentially conscious sounds like something directly out of a horror film, I couldn't imagine the pain he went through.

[@chiefbeef9905]

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.

[@x_voxelle_x]

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.

[@Cy-Fi]

​​@@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.

[@tippsish]

​@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.

[@vigdisthorolfsdottir8177]

Its basically zombies without the eating people and being consious

[@cadedonnghail9317]

"The family is not evil for wanting to save him. And the doctors are not evil for trying to." This is the bit that broke me. What a horrifying way to go.

[@colinwalker4824]

I think the bucket was the true evil all along.

[@Senjamin]

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

[@reasorlloyd1]

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

[@Royalname31]

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

[@awetistic5295]

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.

[@brycedaroni]

This is easily the most humanizing version of this story I've heard. Every other channel seems to like to treat this more like a horror tale. Thank you.

[@ellaelliott4415]

Agreed. No dramatic or creepy music, no startling flairs

[@narwhal9852]

It's is the dudes DNA was DESTROYED. He was destined for death and this guy is painting the doctors as some heros trying save him 😂 when really they where forcibly keeping him alive

[@batyalivni3577]

​@@narwhal9852 He literally presents this issue in the video...

[@narwhal9852]

@@batyalivni3577 not in the way you're implementing

[@batyalivni3577]

@@narwhal9852 ???

[@horrorspirit]

The fact that his heart was one of the few things that were okay is weirdly poetic

[@samoriab5999]

Heart and brain kept in tact for the torture..

[@TheBfutgreg]

@@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

[@packopocky]

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

[@Kapik1081]

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.

[@samoriab5999]

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

[@skelehedron3070]

I think the saddest part of the story is that he was the least deserving person of something like this. This happened because he wanted to be helpful. His boss never asked him to take the funnel, but he did because he wanted to be helpful, and his being helpful killed him.

[@LordMephilis]

That, and the horrible practices around radioactive materials.

[@__-be1gk]

Goes to show, never be helpful.

[@lagunkaz]

@@__-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.

[@vahlen5281]

@@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.

[@MothOnWall]

​@@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.

[@kyin9377]

The paper cranes made be burst out in tears on the spot. Basically, for those who dont know, There was a girl in japan that was affected by the bombing of world war two, and had radiation sickness because of it. She spent the last years of her life in the hospital folding cranes everyday, and she said her goal was to fold one thousand of them. One thousand paper cranes is something you can do to make a wish come true, and her wish was to get better. It also symbolizes longevity. Unfortunately, she died before she finish all one thousand. So the friends and family around her finished her project after her passing. There is now a statue in her memory, along with the one thousand paper cranes hung in the hospital she was at. So seeing the connection of her story and his, and the meaning of the 1000 paper cranes destroyed me.

[@MissSimone02]

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

[@pegasBaO23]

the family folded 10 000 cranes

[@Chris_Cross]

Imagine if she folded 999.

[@TrishaElric7]

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

[@SuperSunnyB210]

Same

[@justsomeguy2825]

Also wanted to mention. "Evil doctors" who sacrificed days of their life into tireless work trying to keep one man alive. Who went to every length imaginable to do the impossible, and champion the greatest survival story ever told if they were sucessful(They would all be legends if they actually saved him) "Selfish family" who spent every waking moment of their life being by their loved one's side through his suffering, always motivating him to pull through certain death. "A man who just wanted to die" who gave every indication that he was fighting every second to live for his family. Who's heart literally was shown to have kept beating even when every other system was dead. This wasn't a story of cruel human experimentation, it was a story of a man and his doctor's fighting an uphill battle against actual certain death who sadly lost.

[@Izaan2810]

A colossally complex situation, no doubt.

[@ColourfulChaosCorner]

Of all the comments, this one made me the most tearful. It's such a heartbreaking story.

[@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato]

I totally agree. How are you supposed to give up on your loved one if the doctors are still willing to try and there might still be hope? How are you supposed to give up on your patient when you got into medicine to save lives and you think there is hope? We have the luxury of knowing how horribly it ended and how there was nothing that could be done. They didn’t know what we know, now. It’s heartbreaking that they’ve been villainized. What a nightmare of a position to be put in.

[@willf.4590]

One of the doctors went out of his way to buy drugs illegally off the black market just to try to reduce Hisashi's pain and keep him alive. No "evil doctor" would do that.

[@barkspawn]

Don't forget the heroic managers who saved a few dollars and increased shareholder value at the low low cost of destroying a life and a family. Tale as old as time.

[@idk_whatimdoing_1384]

For those who don't know, the reason his family members were likely making so many origami cranes comes from a common Japanese superstition, where if you make 1000 you will get a wish, commonly associated with a book where a girl with leukemia following ww2 attempts this in order to survive.

[@OfficialBizz77]

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

[@idk_whatimdoing_1384]

@@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

[@keyu1290]

@@idk_whatimdoing_1384 thanks for the book rec

[@clintjanes3784]

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

[@SilenceIsGolden4]

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.

[@Mophony]

"His arm is melting, and it's poisoning his whole body." That's a terrifying statement in and of itself, but the fact that this was one of the more mild problems Hisashi faced, is mind numbing to think about.

[@txawjuaheev8053]

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?"

[@purplecody3299]

The comment about his wife refusing to cry while in the room made me tear up. What a strong woman showing love for her spouse.

[@yahia5476]

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

[@rel4998]

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

[@sir_ridley388]

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

[@jakdaxter6033]

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

[@meganfaith4052]

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

[@icarusfell3183]

Apparently nerves and brain cells aren't very affected by radiation. Knowing that, if it is true. He was most likely conscious and feeling himself decompose. It would've literally been a conscious decomposition. That's absolutely fucking horrifying and soul crushingly devastating.

[@malinia.20]

It's true. Just like with chemotherapy, fast-growing cells like the mucous membranes inside your mouth and GI tract are most affected by radiation. But at some point, your brain blocks out pain because of adrenaline. And hopefully, he was on high doses of all kinds of painkillers. When you're in that much pain, you dissociate. Because no one's brain can take that much pain and horror without going into shock and dying.

[@_Lu_Lu_Lu]

In this case, there's no way that he would've wanted it to continue for so long, and people seem to forget that there is a limit to how much a person is able to take... The heart tissue remaining intact is probably (!) not some supernatural sign that he "kept fighting" for love. Maybe it's cause it was the only muscle still being used. This man deserves to finally rest in peace, poor soul. I hope his wife doesn't feel extreme guilt (I would probably, but I hope she doesn't), and is able to live happy with her son.

[@BeckBeckGo]

So I've made a few comments based on what I was able to understand from this case. I'm not a cellular biologist, but I have a rudimentary understanding of some microbiology - and I DO mean rudimentary, we're talking Sophomoric at best. So I'm just pontificating here. It seems to me that, at least in Ouchi's case, the major issue was total chromosomal destruction. Which, for the living cell, isn't really all that big of a deal, in terms of day-to-day operations. I believe the sole purpose of chromosome pairs is to trigger and direct cell division and inheritance. Like in sexual reproduction, you only need one sperm and one egg to produce one living creature. You don't need a regular dose of eggs or sperm (no matter what anyone on any dating site tells you) to survive after that. Of course, our bodies pretty much go back to mitosis once we're conceived, so while we don't need an endless influx of the genetic material that CREATED us, we DO need to ensure that the cells produced from that genetic material continue to function and asexually reproduce as expected. Anyway, so some cells have a high turnover rate; Cells like stomach lining, skin, hair, mucus membranes, etc tend to turn over pretty fast. And immune cells die and reproduce at a furious rate, because those guys are basically the gatekeepers of the entire system, and they're running the gauntlet every day. They live and die quickly. Nerve cells, however, are an example of a cell that really lives a fucking long time. And as long as it had a healthy set of genetic material when it was born, it can live its life as it's supposed to without issue. It's only when it's time for the cell to divide that it runs into a problem. Because those instructions were written to chromosomes that, ah shit.... they're all fucked up. They're essentially rendered infertile. I'm also curious whether a massive trauma like this would cause any cells to commit suicide (apoptosis, and yeah, it's a thing). There is so much to be learned from the data gathered during this precious man's heroic fight. I wish I had the breadth of knowledge necessary to dig into it. Yes, it's tragic and it's a terribly sad case. But it IS also fascinating from a scientific standpoint, and I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

[@RickyTickyBobbyWobbin628]

But remeber his heart stopped like 6 times so his brain damage woulda been monumental so I doubt he felt a thing after those heart attacks and like wendigo said he was effectivly dead

[@reasorlloyd1]

“Conscious decomposition” now replaces my fear of Rabies as the number one horror to go through before death.

[@ethandoesmusic]

Same

[@owenleal]

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

[@Ariaa76]

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

[@hannahelorie2527]

Totally agree

[@TiredEyes]

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

[@Meekmillan]

His wife is an absolute gangster. Not crying once while he was alive while everyone else is breaking down so he doesn’t lose hope is one of the most deeply romantic & powerful things I’ve heard.

[@wishingwell_333]

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

[@olapinme408]

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 🙏🏻

[@Lobardan]

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

[@wishingwell_333]

@@Lobardan this is kinda real too lmao

[@kaorii10]

She was stoic; a tenet of Japanese society.

[@caec.lan_is_tired]

The fact that Hisashi's family folded all those paper cranes is very sweet. I know there's a myth that if you fold a thousand paper cranes in a year, you can make a wish and it will be granted. I imagine they were wishing for Hisashi to recover. The fact that the nurse refused to take them down is equally heartwarming.

[@notbilly7498]

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

[@briahwelch7256]

i thought this same thing i literally cried

[@briahwelch7256]

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

[@ilyulia_]

​@@notbilly7498 that book was so sad :(

[@kathleenwendy7835]

I cried so hard at that. Simply heartbreaking.

[@cassie1264]

Man, as a hospice nurse this story kills me. I don't blame the family for having faith and wanting to do everything possible, but sometimes doctors have a really hard time admitting that it's time to stop the interventions. That being said, he was a 35 year old father. Accepting death at that age is so much harder than an elderly man who lived a long, full life. They maintained hope for as long as they could. I really waffled back and forth watching this, but wanted to commend Wendigoon on his sensitivity and compassion in covering this case. It's certainly heartbreaking

[@Gwyllgi]

Nah it's bullshit. This man became something for them to write a bunch of award winning journals on and you know it. Sensitivity and compassion becomes ignorance real quick. He literally said he felt like an experiment, and they guilted him with his family. This man never should have been put through such a torturous experience.

[@elijahsee]

@@Gwyllgi are you deaf possibly blind because I pray to whatever higher power there is for you order to say some stupid shit like that

[@CloudParadox-is1jc]

I'm 37 years old and I have a dnr so if something happens my family can't keep me as a fucking zombie and torture me like this. Its hard for the people living to accept the loss but it's not fair to the one actually going through it.. personally my life was been full of pain and leaving it behind is the best case scenario

[@elijahsee]

@@CloudParadox-is1jc yeah exactly for you

[@cassie1264]

@@Gwyllgi I'm not ignorant. I work in healthcare and have no doubt that some of the professionals involved probably felt that way, but plenty of them (especially the nurses) were trying to save his life. We see it all the time.

[@nyademattos7808]

the lengths his sister went to save her brother really warms and breaks my heart what a lovely human being she has a huge heart

[@missbrowniejay]

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

[@joshuadavis5899]

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

[@ImaginaryAlchemist]

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

[@blondeepartygirl]

Yeah.

[@redred222]

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

[@mel.santia]

"I think people try to make this scary rather than tragic" is such a true statement. I love seeing you cover stories like this so respectfully and with facts instead of turning it into a horror tale for clout.

[@wolfgirl850]

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.

[@shinyhoarder]

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.

[@xx-fz2ll]

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

[@wereallveryloud]

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

[@mel.santia]

@@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.

[@bitteralmonds666]

I knew of this story. It’s not the doctors I thought were “evil.” It’s the corporation Hisashi worked for that always gave me the impression as being evil. Turns out, the corporation was a combination of evil and stupid.

[@hentaisailor5951]

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.

[@FauZhee]

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.

[@angusmcmillain]

Most evil can be described that way.

[@smocloud]

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

[@bitteralmonds666]

@@smocloud Greed: It was literally all about profits over people. I’d refer to that as “evil.”

[@user-gw7uy3il1k]

People forget that in Japan giving up is seen as a dishonor to your family, he probably thought he COULDN'T give up, because that would hurt his family too

[@KarasuCosplay]

Thats a fact yes ,thats japan à totally different culture of here

[@pot4017]

what about seppuku

[@Whereiscake]

@@pot4017Seppuku is (a lot of things but mainly it’s) a ritualistic suicide that is meant to recover your family’s honour. In this case; if you’ve done something terrible you might request seppuku to recover your family’s honour and avoid your family suffering from your mishaps.

[@dinoking8562]

​@@pot4017 Seppuku is a old concept, and I dont think its performed commonly now or the time of the case.

[@jasonbarrie9933]

@@user-gw7uy3il1k except for the fact that his last words were "Im not a guinea pig" the guy knew he was dead already...absolutely sick and disgusting doctors and researchers...but Japan is known for this...what number was the Unit again that committed all those war crimes?

[@matheuss886]

Hearing about how Hisashi's wife would never ever cry in front of him in order to cheer him up and make him have hope and give strength made me cry myself. That's such a beautiful and yet tragic story.

[@daipovs]

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.

[@LEWIS_sanders_9]

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

[@matheuss886]

@@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...

[@matheuss886]

@@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.

[@LEWIS_sanders_9]

@@matheuss886 centrist

[@iristhorne6521]

The 10,000 paper cranes part was what really drove it home for me, because of the old legend that anyone who folds 1,000 paper cranes will be granted one wish. They weren’t just folding them to pass the time or as a little familial ritual, they were folding their wishes for their father, their husband, their brother, their son. That he could have the strength to live just one more day, and maybe he would make it out alive. Or maybe that his pain would stop and he could still be with them. It’s harrowing to imagine sitting in that quiet waiting room, after you’ve realized that nothing that you or anyone else could do would ever save his life, still folding your wishes into the forms of little paper cranes.

[@insaneirishimmigrant3052]

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.

[@lucie1520]

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

[@Geidi174]

Hey can I get a TLDR on this

[@MishKoz]

​@@Geidi174 It's a single paragraph

[@insaneirishimmigrant3052]

@@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.

[@yeziasky7591]

Im just happy that there's finally a video on here about Hisashi that isn't portrayed in a "ghost story" kinda way. He was a real man, with a real family, who went through something no human should have to go through and his story gets treated like a plot to a movie. This is the first video where I seen someone talk about him with empathy and compassion.

[@Nugcon]

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

[@pedrofelipefreitas2666]

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

[@yeziasky7591]

@@pedrofelipefreitas2666 exactly, what happened is already horrific enough

[@Ballad0fFallenAngels]

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!

[@TheRealSantaGaming]

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!”

[@tay2922]

I love how Wendigoon makes sure to not paint the picture in a way, that other youtubers do: in this case and The toxic Woman one. I also love how Wendigoon explains confusing things, like chemical reactions and Why they happened, in a very easily understandable way, with metaphors. Also horrifying story, i cannot imagine the PAIN in everyones part.

[@Ranger881]

I've never seen anyone cover Hisashi's story with this level of empathy and care. It's truly heart wrenching.

[@kristanricketts5028]

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

[@Jayyy667]

He was a guinea pig

[@madmonty4761]

​@@kristanricketts5028at least he helped with cancer research

[@Beeboop00]

I’d rather the video be 2 minutes long

[@LocseryuOfficial]

@@Beeboop00 Why?

[@jarbincks6715]

"Hishashi is not Hishahi, he is a body controlled by other things." Absolutely terrifying sentence

[@justinsinger2505]

Sounds like something out of Gemani home entertainment

[@Godyeater]

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

[@punyama5902]

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.

[@lowhc]

@@punyama5902 i love hxh

[@thatrogersmith]

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.

[@steaky6523]

As horrid and painful this is. You have to take a moment to appreciate how incredible the human body is. Rebuilding itself from scratch to try and fight the radiation. I hope Hisashi rests well knowing how brave he is and what an impact he had on the world.

[@John_Gillman]

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

[@Manigeitora]

@@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.

[@txawjuaheev8053]

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?

[@DatsWhatHeSaid]

@@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.. 🙄

[@20chocsaday]

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.

[@mistercaddzola734]

1:20:45 Dang. I can’t explain it, but that quote of “His body was the crystallization of his perseverance” just hit me too hard. All this, and that’s what broke me.

[@MrBruh77]

I think it’s because we kept hearing how much pain and suffering that dude was going through, and most likely saw it ourselves as something horrible, that when we heard his body being described as a momentum for his will, really makes you realize he was just a man who wanted to make his family happy, and the doctors were trying everything they could to make it happen, but everything kept failing.

[@palletlover8519]

Finding out that his heart was the only part of him that was more or less unaffected actually made me cry

[@jadenjerries2094]

same...

[@psihypo]

hey same pfp :00

[@akalawada]

Found myself getting emotional hearing about Hisashi’s wife never crying in his presence and always reminiscing about the good times. She had every right to be devastated; no one would blame her for weeping for her husband… what an amazing woman.

[@darkembers1]

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

[@zadarasimoleons1019]

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

[@Darkshadows9776]

First Wendigoon video to make me cry, for real

[@Oh-fr2nv]

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

[@luesCow]

Same

[@ahuman3393]

“Hopefully he did experience enough brain damage” will never stop being an absolutely chilling statement.

[@Noa-g1ex]

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

[@strongbadman2]

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

[@creatorzp]

i read this just as he said that

[@freedfg6694]

"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.

[@EShirako]

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!

[@cubedbysilver]

I think what fucks me up most is that your blood vessels start to degrade so painkillers can’t take effect. They literally can’t alleviate your pain. :(

[@tylertheguy3160]

His wife's courage, the paper cranes still being there, the thin gauze covering his face... this story is full of details that are emotionally shattering. This poor man. I genuinely, genuinely hope that wherever he is now he's happy and he knows that people empathize with him.

[@MaiaEmpyrean]

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

[@Pieguy223]

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

[@psychotropicstate]

​@@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

[@MaiaEmpyrean]

@@psychotropicstate True. Jesus definitely understood his suffering.

[@nokiot9]

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

[@SplendidCoffee0]

I love how these dark videos are always softened with your cheery Hawaiian aesthetic. It’s the only way I can really digest this stuff anymore.

[@DRGEngineer]

"Hawaiian aesthetic" 2023 in a nutshell

[@Aluttuh]

boog

[@ronaldeliascorderocalles]

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

[@samuelrichards5521]

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

[@rivereuphrates8103]

Just wanting to say I love your profile picture

[@skeetboopbo]

Actually there's a reason that Hisashi's family was always folding the cranes! In Japan, there's a belief that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes, you can have a wish come true. And honestly knowing that made what Wendigoon thought was a cute little fact so..genuinely heartbreaking

[@baileyellison642]

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

[@SuV33358]

That was on an ER episode

[@Spiritwolf145]

@@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.

[@GreenAppelPie]

I thought everyone knew this

[@dixenherize6969]

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

[@cinnamonjellyfish3432]

I think the worst part of this story is the beginning when you know everything is about to get leagues worse and he keeps going 'this guy was bright and friendly and helpful and it seemed to be getting better' my stomach started churning at that point looking at the title and comments while hearing that

[@debrabarber3483]

That shot of his chromosomes is one of the scariest things that I've ever seen. Got some education in that area, so as soon as I saw that I knew what would happen. For some context, either having too many or too few is devastating. He didn't have a single normal one left and some fused. I feel so bad for him, his family and the medical staff. They did what they could, but it was over for him before he even made it to hospital

[@Senjamin]

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.

[@reasorlloyd1]

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.

[@Darker7]

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™

[@debrabarber3483]

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

[@alexevasic8411]

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

[@emerginglobster2075]

It's so sad how he was in such high spirits thanking the staff and blushing while being bathed by nurses while being in agonizing pain and on the brink of death. Hopefully he's at peace now.

[@elmo7455]

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

[@CoolAnagram]

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

[@Unimoo420]

I was your 999th like

[@hazar6662]

His wife breaking down crying when she sees him lie dead is utterly heartbreaking. The strenght she must've had to not cry in front of him for all this time

[@rattyratstuff7125]

First video of unnatural human horror that has made me cry. All I could think of is how fucking hard dad has fought to keep us out of the sticks and in a good neighborhood and how utterly horrible our lives would have been if me and bro had become men where we used to live.

[@TheHippyProductions]

​@@rattyratstuff7125 I get the feeling. my aunt and uncle took me my mom and my little sister in for like 9 years after we moved away from my dad when I was super little. those years were a blessing because of how patient my aunt and uncle had been to basically raise me and my little sister because my mom was never around constantly working overtime and being gone before I got up and after I went to bed, even though my aunt had been bedridden for years over a sudden development of DDD and severe arthritis, and my uncle never had much energy always burned out working for a utility company and taking over chores my aunt cant do. they all did what they could for my little sister and I and I have so much to thank them for

[@ChronicallyRabid]

I hope that she had her family and the community. No one deserves to grieve like that alone. I don’t know if she’s still alive but I hope she is recognized for her part and how strong she was as well

[@harrystyles705]

Of all wendigoon videos, I think this is the one that really numbed me to my core. I teared up at the descriptions of his wife finally crying after his body had shut off for good. Incredibly chilling stuff.

[@isaiahmoralez6642]

Hearing that the wife stayed strong and didn’t cry until he died got me crying. The strength she held for him is truly remarkable and heartbreaking. I can only imagine the pain she felt when she knew he was gone is a pain I fear for my wife. Truly a soul crushing story, filled with nothing but hope in a hopeless situation

[@Rose-hh7mk]

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.

[@bordy9476]

yeah i just cried hearing that part

[@wolfeyes555]

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

[@Nosferopathy]

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.

[@vadimnimarov8796]

shes a horrendously selfish woman for making him endure that.

[@renoldojeffrey4653]

You don’t exploit, you tell the entire story. It is very rare to hear of a tragedy dealt with in a genuine and human way. You don’t detach from it or sensationalize it in a true crime way, you allow us to be there with the family. Thank you for your cautiousness with the event

[@simplifiedspike9702]

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

[@sawyersauces]

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

[@TheDawnlegend]

I completely respect Wendigoon’s telling of the story

[@your_dad_on_vacation]

@@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.

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

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.

[@mariewilliams485]

The real anger needs to be directed at the company’s absolutely criminal negligence. May whoever profited off this man’s suffering, suffer the same fate

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

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

[@nyom6378]

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.

[@impermanence4300]

​@@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.

[@nifynitm]

@@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

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

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

[@Mumblesmcghee69]

I put off watching this for MONTHS. I’m glad I did though. I always thought they kept Hasashi alive as an experiment. But your detailed breakdown just shows that they were desperately trying to fight off the effects of radiation.

[@themosaicshow]

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

[@akhiltrc9708]

I think it is ignorant to call the doctors and family evil. They clearly weren’t, not with bad intentions in keeping him alive anyway. But I will say, they were cruel by ignorance and selfishness. By assuming that Hisashi might want to survive for his family part way through his hell when he was unresponsive is projection at best. We do not know the kind of pain he was going through, his ability and willingness to handle it. We don’t know whether the physical pain might’ve broken his psyche and spirit. All’s ours and their assumptions that he might want to live again while he is excreting his liquified organs and experiencing every inch of that hellscape. The most important question they should’ve asked and found the answer immediately was “at what point is it kindness to release him from life?”

[@Mumblesmcghee69]

@@akhiltrc9708 I completely agree. Even modern day, we deal with these very conflicting situations. And sometimes, the patient doesn’t really know what they want or don’t want. I think it’s important to know that this was the first case of its kind and no one knew what to expect or do. I think they handled it as best they could. But I do think toward the end, comfort should have been the biggest concern. I think that’s why I appreciate the nurses so much. They could see the suffering and knew he had little contact so they tried their best with what time and resources they had.

[@EnderMagpie]

It’s actually very comforting to learn that Hisashi wasn’t treated as an experiment. That all of this suffering wasn’t because of some sick fascination but because the doctors genuinely thought if they got him through this he could recover. That they were willing to work 24/7 and push aside doubts because they told this man and his family they would try as long as they could. That says something about humanities compassion, so did the questions on wether the suffering Hisashi was facing was worth it in the end.

[@ultrahevybeat]

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

[@randalthor6872]

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 : (

[@kalisurf5644]

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.

[@joyboy6752]

I really hope this was the truth.

[@haleyh3242]

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 😢

[@sal6695]

To me, the diarrhea part is probably personally the most disturbing. Imagine having constant diarrhea, with your anus being completely deatroyed as the mucus lining is gone, constant unimaginable pain, and on top of that the knowledge that the thing youre shitting out is your own liquified organs. Horrifying beyond imagination.

[@sal6695]

@@l..l_ i guess

[@WannzKaswan]

Sal? It's you? I'm Plant

[@sal6695]

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

[@WannzKaswan]

@@sal6695 Lmao

[@twerkish2]

@@sal6695what is the lore here behind you and plant

[@Solararisa]

"His body was a crystallization of his perseverance" That part finally broke me down, that single line is so profound. This entire video is so respectfully done, like I have never seen before with other CCs covering Hisashi's horrible pain.

[@elibap2892]

It fits your Username

[@alejandrocastillolopez6268]

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

[@thedoggo6618]

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

[@alejandrocastillolopez6268]

@@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"

[@thedoggo6618]

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

[@jack_the_wendigo]

The level of control his wife had over her emotions is unfathomable

[@drakeno4273]

The fact the doctors were working around the clock with the meeting schedules and such that wendigoon explained almost makes it sound like the story is going to have a happy ending, That many doctors working so hard for a single man for as long as they did is honestly insipring

[@Hippida]

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

[@y2bgenie438]

​@metalmusicspedupmoron.

[@palindrom8369]

@metalmusicspedup he was their experiment.

[@joseguadalupemartineztorre9702]

​@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.

[@mozarkozark]

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.

[@mangowolf2706]

These kinds of videos make me hyper aware of just how complicated and insane human biology is. The fact he managed to stay alive that long has to be a display of sheer human will.

[@blackosprey2219]

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.

[@xAudiolith]

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

[@mongrel_97]

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

[@aidanmatthewgalea7761]

@@mongrel_97 *instantly

[@MonsieurFeshe]

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.

[@SaberNezumi]

I have never heard this story with this level of empathy and respect for everyone involved. It really brings out the level of morbidity and sensationalism that has surrounded it over the years. This and the murder of Junko Furuta have always been stories that are handled without the respect they deserve. This is a good example that you can touch these subjects with the required level of care.

[@Silvermoon424]

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).

[@renoldojeffrey4653]

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

[@sundewfundew]

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

[@Official_Zim]

Agreed I’m in aeiou

[@hylwicks]

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

[@demoninthedark_ua]

Rewatching this a second time. His wife finally breaking down and crying only after his death, man, it still makes me bawl my eyes out... Poor guy suffered through so much, as did his family, it's just so devastating.

[@kateIaw]

I’m glad this was the first video I watched on Hisashi Ouchi. It’s astonishing how much the human body can actually withstand. Hearing that his body was still trying desperately to grow new cells until the end…

[@specialstone9153]

I have heard that hearing can be the last thing to go (Alzheimers) but i wonder about in his case. Also people have lived a long time surprisingly with very low heart rate (even with pacemaker). Oh God help us all!

[@justaneditygangstar]

Damn straight he’s Hisashi Ouchie

[@u4riahsc]

Look at all the drug abuse people put their bodies through.

[@toxogandhi]

He was a warrior.

[@3amorogamer246]

I thought the human body was really weak

[@ruth80809]

I've heard about Hisashi's story and had the impression he was kept alive only for the sake of experimentation. But after watching this, I can how wrong I was. The doctors and nurses went above and beyond for him. His family wanted him to live and were willing to do whatever it took. Like you said, even he would have been willing to endure the horrible pain just to survive. The issue of some of these channels is solely focusing on the gore. I guess I lost sight of that. I can't thank you enough, for restoring humanity and decency to Hisashi's story.

[@trafficjon400]

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

[@guardsmansethlee3635]

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.

[@KYCDK]

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

[@nextcaesargaming5469]

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.

[@bzipoli]

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

[@PotatoKing219]

“Safety Regulations are written in blood.” - Rest easy Hisashi, you join the ranks of the unlucky few that have saved millions.

[@rewiwwiosius]

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

[@iamafuckingfailure]

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

[@sauroe4231]

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

[@Thousine]

@ANIMALSEMEN-lm4jk imagine being such a loser

[@jonah9150]

​@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.

[@adzdrawss]

being in anatomy and knowing what happened at a molecular level is crazy. radiation is nothing to mess with and the conditions in that facility was horrendous. this story is so messed up and i feel horrible for him and his family.

[@Rinyann_]

The saddest part about this video is the fact that the doctors tried so hard, to keep Hisashi alive, and Hisashi himself fought harder than anyone thought was possible, to stay alive. But in the end it's just too much for someone's body to handle. This incredible man died 3 times before finally giving out. The dedication of the doctors, and Hisashi's powerful spirit, is incredibly inspiring. I hope that in his final moments, he knew that everything that he endured shows just how strong humans in the worst of conditions can fight through. A true legend. Rest in peace Hisashi. And to Masato, who may get overlooked due to his case not being as rare as Hisashi's case, lasting 200 days is truly an incredible accomplishment. Rest in peace Masato.

[@VG-fk6nk]

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

[@notawtistic]

@@VG-fk6nkWasn’t funny 💀

[@VG-fk6nk]

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

[@jogrant3851]

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

[@flammable7961]

@@jogrant3851someone didn’t watch the video

[@rae3432]

What gets me is the fact that Hisashi offered to take over from his manager. Just a seemingly minor, passing little action saved that man from ending up like this, and also doomed Hisashi. It could have so easily been the other way around.

[@poogissploogis]

Man, the strength of the wife brought a tear to my eye. That took selflessness to hold back her emotion for the sake of her husband. I bet her support kept him going, and in a poetic way, maybe that's why his heart was in perfect condition. RIP Hisashi

[@joniii_]

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

[@devonesq.7533]

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.

[@MaliaMydnight]

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.

[@georgiaamanatides4207]

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.

[@michellepetersen6597]

@@charlieberry7562 different types of strength.

[@catsonzoloft]

hearing how sweet he was broke my heart. he sounded like such a good man:(

[@randiroo2616]

As a nurse who currently works in an ICU and who has previously worked with blood cancer patients, I want to say thank you. I have heard this story so many times, but the way you covered it is by far my favorite. The way you explained the medical issues, especially the blood counts and bone marrow transfusion, was so impressive to me that you maintained accuracy while making it more understandable. But more than anything else, I want to thank you for taking the time to address the thoughts that the doctors were keeping him alive against his will as a science experiment. I feel like people not in the medical field don’t fully understand the immense moral dilemmas we face on an unfortunately regular basis. This case is by far the biggest moral dilemma I have ever heard. The hardest part is that people don’t think about that fact that until the patient or patient’s representative signs a DNR or something similar, we legally cannot give up on the patient. Unless they tell us we cannot intubate the patient, we have to intubate them when they stop breathing. Unless they tell us we cannot do compressions, we have to start compressions when their heart stops beating. No matter how awful their situation is, we have to throw everything we’ve got into attempting to heal them until they tell us to stop. And when the family believes there is a chance the patient can pull through, or the patient is determined to do everything to stay alive for their family, when they tell you and beg you to try everything you can think of… I and plenty of my colleagues (nurses and doctors alike) have sat in our cars and cried after working through a 3+ hour code on patients we knew were beyond saving in hour 1 before the family told us to stop, but we had to keep going until they told us to stop because they still had a heartbeat, no matter how slow it was. I still hear the screams of one of my former patients begging us to stop moving her and to just let her die because she was in so much pain, but refused to stop treatment because she wanted to survive for her teenage kids. Because there are plenty of cases where miracles happen, and people you thought for sure wouldn’t make it pull through and live a fulfilling life afterwards. Those cases give us enough hope to keep trying. But when they don’t pull through, and you look back on the things you did to them to provide care, or when you’re in the moment and know the care you’re giving is excruciating to endure or have life altering consequences if it doesn’t work, that guilt never leaves you. So thank you, a million times over, for looking at this case with the empathy that you did.

[@nekkobat6876]

Hey, med lab scientist here! I agree, I was so impressed by how accurately he described the pathological processes we see in the hospital every day that most people (and even most TV dramas) don’t understand! He really did his research and I was so grateful for it

[@KiwiSpartan01]

💜

[@Ali_OT7]

As someone who has been through organ failure, sepsis, a coma and coding, I want to thank you for the work you do. I cannot imagine the emotional toll it takes on you, but I wouldn't be healthy (or even alive) without people like you ❤

[@LIQUIDGAMING7]

@@nekkobat6876 Hello fellow MLS! 👋

[@lindascott1874]

Many things have done in the past, some reprehensible by today's standards. Remember the times were different and fear justified it

[@ori-arts]

Man what REALLY got to me was his heart being more or less completely fine throughout it all. Thinking of it symbolically and not scientifically, that is beautiful and heartbreaking.

[@electromenzgd2962]

Yeah, because in like Egyptian mythology, that heart was the key to making it into the afterlife basically, so like yeah, I get where you're coming from there

[@uglybetty8747]

Ikr in the documentary it was well put, was very emotional. It sorta symbolises his resilience 🥺

[@GigaDarkness]

well technically it's not heartbreaking because his heart wasn't broken in any way

[@emsa5034]

@@GigaDarknessokay smartass

[@a_centurion_main8757]

@@GigaDarkness ffs 🤣

[@theluckycat4857]

As a cell therapy processing lead, I cannot imagine the pain this man was in. The care those doctors provided was incredible and the strength his family showed was unimaginable.

[@Kunfucious577]

Yes but if that we’re me, I’d want to die. There was no way to come back from that.

[@MichaelPhillips-jw4bj]

Miracle recoveries happen, even radiation victims .. Hed shown cell regrowth which is a standard sign of recovery, that means there’s hope. When that stopped he was non responsive and it probably was the end for sato s awareness/ suffering

[@MichaelPhillips-jw4bj]

I agree with your statement though. Seeing family members take radiation therapy, only to die scared me. Going through even chemotherapy vs dying is actually a back n forth decision , it’s basically worse then many deaths

[@BryanJohnson4891]

The care the doctors provided was experimental, cruel, and useless. When your veins melt and you can’t even be given morphine because your my opioid receptors have been turned to mush, you let the patient die. If I were the doctor on call here I’d have told him to call his family, say his prayers, and “accidentally” given him 800mg of morphine with some Valium to sweeten the blow. This doctor was a filthy disgusting twat, typical of the cruel fucks who get into medicine. Let’s keep a piece of human mush “alive” for 83 days! Yep! Incredible care! Hooray! Thank god for the doctor! If I were his colleague or a family member of the guy I’d have shot him dead. He fucking deserves it. “Do no harm” doesn’t equal “keep a melting corpse alive at all costs”.

[@haileyjohnson6534]

seriously

[@tiredteen8906]

Yesterday evening penpal, now this, im speed running being grateful for my life after a big Depression hole and 'standing at the edge', how tiny and insignificant my problems are and how blissed I am to live, truely

[@rainbows9060]

Your comment sounds like you are turning a corner with your struggles. Im coming from the same place. I wish you all the best.

[@tiredteen8906]

@@rainbows9060 yes I am, and thank you so much! Im currently doing fairly good, I hope that you will also find comfort and happiness rather soon. At some point you will, I promise.

[@leahdresser2290]

The idea that propofol, fentanyl, and ketamine combined couldn't kill the pain this man was experiencing is almost unfathomable. I don't know if anyone else in history has ever experienced that pain.

[@daeviant]

Probably not for such a long period of time.

[@hannag4768]

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.

[@matthewsmiley3630]

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”.

[@Thelonesomedove72]

And yet women say child birth hurts….

[@sirkies]

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

[@sofialima4521]

Radiation stories are always so heartbreaking because the victims are almost always clueless to the danger of the situation. The scientists messing with the demon core at least knew the risks, but Hisashi didn't know any better. Thank you for covering this story with such empathy and compassion for everyone involved. I hope we never get another case like this.

[@sofialima4521]

@@adambrownbird4347 he's not wrong about me lol but also, weird thing to keep from the entire video

[@currynoodles4074]

@@adambrownbird4347 It's a bit?? comedy? not serious?? hello??

[@genericusername147]

@@adambrownbird4347homeboy its called a joke

[@habhdyst722]

​@@adambrownbird4347congratulations on being a dumbass

[@void7357]

​@@genericusername147bro is self serious

[@voidsenpai8170]

I’ve heard this story so many times, but this is the first retelling that’s made me cry. Those paper cranes his family were folding day after day- there’s a Japanese myth that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes any wish you make will come true. The family was more than likely trying to make 1,000 for Hisashi in order to make a wish. I dunno, something about that little detail just hit me like an emotional tidal wave. I hope wherever he is now, he’s at peace.

[@sivazona44]

I've heard it in a book called 'Sadako wants to live' or something like that. it was a mandatory school read for us. it's about hiroshima bombing and while Sadako is at the hospital she's making 1000 cranes. if you want to know the ending make sure to read it :)

[@kadynspell3709]

@@sivazona44 the books called Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. It’s about a young girl who gets cancer from radiation poisoning from the bombing in Hiroshima. It was the first book I read that detailed the myth

[@alkv7604]

I completely forgot that this myth can be used in tragedies... The first time i heard of this myth was in Paper mario... I feel bad now...

[@sivazona44]

@@kadynspell3709 oh yeah! i read it a long time ago. i should reread it

[@sivazona44]

@@alkv7604 👀

[@yellobb3848]

He sounds like he was a wonderful human being and his family was equally lovely. I hope they’re doing okay now

[@owenleal]

It kinda sickens me that what should have been an expose of corporate negligence has become overshadowed by the demonisation of a grieving family and a team of doctors, who the only crime any of them committed was wanting a guy to live.

[@aguywhodoesstuff1116]

Yeah :(

[@Hadgerz]

^^ One of the few who gets it.

[@anglepsycho]

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.

[@Khang-kw6od]

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

[@krittikabiswas8500]

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

[@sleepiestmoth]

"The family is not evil for wanting to save him, and the doctors are not evil for trying to." This story is so heartbreaking, but I appreciate so much the empathy that Wendigoon brings to it. The clear frustration with people needlessly sensationalizing the story, and the effort he goes to to tell it in it's entirety, without forgetting that this was a husband, a father, brother, son who suffered so much more than he ever should have. That his suffering was not because of cartoonish evil scientists, but because of complacency and a laissez faire approach to safety by those who stood to profit by risking their workers lives.

[@ianjohnson3770]

The doctors absolutely are monsters for doing to him what they did. They subjected him to months of needless torture when it was painfully obvious that he was never going to recover. They were too caught up in their own hubris to believe that they couldn’t save him, and the family was either misinformed by those doctors thinking he could be saved, or selfish for going on this half a percent chance that he could have survived by putting him through unimaginable pain

[@C6urier]

@@ianjohnson3770 it wasn’t though there were periods where they thought he could live

[@kittykatt8092]

​@Ian Johnson a dozen doctors from a variety of different backgrounds wouldn't have gone through so much effort to try and save this man just for their own "hubris". The fact they did international dealings, made dealings with the government, etc shows that they truly believed there was a way to save him.

[@alicethemad1613]

@Ian Johnson you only say this because we have the luxury of knowing, in the modern day, that his death was basically inevitable. At the time, this was completely new. No one exposed to this much radiation had lived so long and his was a completely unprecedented case with side effects not yet comprehensively treated by doctors. When you literally don’t know the outcome, how could you not fight to keep someone alive? It’s their literal job.

[@stuffums]

Basically if you ever get a lethal dose of radiation, find the tallest building quick, don't tell any doctors. Pure evil how he was tortured. Evil even if there was a chance of "saving" him People who don't understand this haven't experienced ultra-pain. It's not the same as normal pain. It's not something you can understand without experiencing it

[@ciderwater1284]

i love the way he humanizes Hisashi in this retelling of the events. jts easy to listen to stories like this and never actually realise it was a real person who had family and friends, who had emotions and a personality, who had a whole life ahead of him. im so glad wendigoon respected everyone jn this story.

[@manifestgtr]

That’s sort of the problem with “victims”, in general. They tend to be entirely defined, by the greater culture, as people who suffered misfortune as opposed to PEOPLE…people with childhood memories, a favorite color and a family around them. It’s a similar problem when people die in great numbers…millions in Germany, Russia, China, Turkey, all over the Americas. Statistics allow us overlook the *humanity* that’s erased when terrible things happen. It might be a defense mechanism…a way to protect ourselves from the horrible truth that victims of such existential madness are people, just like us…

[@cuneytunsal5422]

'never actually realise it was a real person who had family and friends' if you really do this, i mean, you are kind of pscyho. ofc they are humans and lived a life. what where u expecting?

[@manifestgtr]

@@cuneytunsal5422 Not really…the story kind of gets drilled into your head and it becomes that person’s entire existence from your perspective. I try to think past that stuff but I understand why it doesn’t occur to some people. It’s a consequence of the overwhelming narrative that surrounds the defining moment in someone’s life.

[@tobywood00]

@@cuneytunsal5422 heres a way to imagine it. you hear about a shooting victim on the news. you know they had a life, family, friends, but you probably dont shed a tear for them. if you did, youd be emotionally exhausted after the 100th shooting. now imagine that shooting victim was a friend from highschool. you havent spoken to them for years, sure, but you KNEW them. you remember their smile, their quirks, their voice. youd feel crushed at the very least. humanizing victims, especially when the death count of an incident is in the thousands or millions, is really difficult for people. like people have already said, its a defense mechanism, because you can only care so much

[@issiannamelodi]

@@cuneytunsal5422 think of when you hear about a shooting on the news or a car crash; it’s easy to just hear that stuff and think “oh, that’s awful” but not cry over it. In the end, you don’t know those people, so it’s easy to not get upset over people you never knew. I used to always do that, up until just a few weeks ago when my sister got in a car crash. It’s something you hear about all the time, but don’t feel the pain from it until it happens to someone close to you.

[@GRF_TF]

I’ve never really cried at a KZbin video before, but even though he did sadly pass on, it’s a story of triumph, a story of strength and determination in the face of adversity and even if he was fighting a losing battle with humanities scariest opponent yet, it’s still an incredible story of a man who endured it all just for a sliver of a chance to live for his family, and I think that’s worth shedding a tear.

[@americaisnormal2745]

honestly, i used to think the doctors were so selfish for keeping him alive so long but after listening to this video, i am sobbing for him, his family, and the entire medical team

[@drshin9893]

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

[@lowkeystudios5026]

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

[@skittlemilks1614]

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.

[@georgieyoung-y7u]

Hahaha wait till you watch all quiet on the western front

[@ryanrobison8973]

The point of this case is that this was the turning point for the broader medical community to swing from a focus on extending the lifespan in situations like this, to increasing and maintaining quality of life. Sometimes, keeping someone alive can cause more pain than letting them pass peacefully (if they want to ofc) Main example of this is dying with dignity (assisted suicide) in terminal patients that have a very severe and painful course of disease. It always need to be regarded with caution and care, lest we slip into euthanasia for "undesirables", but the amount of pain avoided for people with severe diseases makes it really worth it. Until you've been around someone who is in the course of disease where the suffering is greatest, you really can't understand the extent to which people can suffer.

[@theoldhermit2601]

Hearing the moment where he was expecting leukemia, rather than knowing the horrors he was about to experience, both broke my heart and gave me perspective. I'm on chemotherapy, not for cancer but for severe autoimmune diseases (the primary one being a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis). I'm disabled at 19. I have my bad days, I have my good days But as painful as it is, even my health doesn't require chemo doses as high as what most cancers require. And even that is just a *millionth* of the pain and cell breakdown that this poor man faced. If he suffered through the worst pain in human history and still faced it with kindness and understanding for those who took care of him, I can do the same with a disease that's painful but pales in comparison to his pain. Stay grateful and for those who are suffering just like me, let's all try to have some of the strength that Hisashi had, even through the unthinkable. ❤

[@Yayofangamer16]

Oh man.

[@alexanderstavroulakis335]

Hope you're doing well.

[@BabyDoll-iv3kb]

This is one of those comments where I wish I could reach through the screen to give you a hug, stay strong

[@K5_Chris]

Stay strong ❤

[@melliethemortician]

I dont know your name but I can strongly relate to you. I have a chronic illness as well that causes me to need chemotherapy. It started at age 16 and went on for 3 years until i was in remission then at 21 it started again and now at 23 its back full force. It genuinely is such a horrible situation to be in but im thankful to my nurses and doctors for what they do. Ive been having chronic pain since I was 8 years old and even I cannot imagine what this man was going through and yet to push through daily all for his family is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Im so sorry for what youre going through but I do hope you find a peace of happiness in your life and have something to look forward to.

[@donniedoorko]

I’ve heard this story many times and no one else has mentioned how sweet he was to everyone at the hospital. Thank you for striving to find the humanity in everything you talk about.

[@threepennyllama9175]

Yeah that's what I love about this channel. He covers a lot of topics I've already seen but goes more in depth about the emotional side of it rather than just all the facts and theories.

[@mikeray3993]

This is probably one of the best written, most sensitively delivered, most harrowing, and most enjoyable documentary videos I have listened to on KZbin

[@Ilsezwarts]

Man I can't find the picture of the paper cranes anywhere, but that picture of the burn victim shows up everywhere. The internet has really treated this story with the utmost disrespect. Thank you for covering it in a respectful way.

[@DEEP-WEB]

This is what’s important. Idk how people can be so disrespectful and careless.

[@vernonvouga5869]

Yea. I definitely got the wrong idea hearing this story before. Everyone involved was a strong and good person.

[@SpaceRemo]

@@vernonvouga5869 Yeah I had heard(and naively believed) that the doctors were treating him like a labrat before watching this.

[@queenofhearts6127]

There’s even memes online about this poor man. Absolutely sick people out there with zero empathy.

[@Akriashi]

@@DEEP-WEB Silent Majority, Asshole Minority. Decent people will wait for and deliver a measured response, which doesn't grab nearly as much attention/ad revenue as the snackbite [Evil Shenanigan occurring] version of an article. When it takes more effort to be decent for less reward, you get more trash before the less-common valuables.

[@aptalsandvic5355]

He met his wife in high school. They dated for 7 years before getting married. Their son was probably around 8-9 at the time he died, they had known eachother for *at least* 15 years. This is so tragic.

[@giorno4859]

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.

[@phosphatepod]

@@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.

[@theapproximatetruth5400]

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[@Janellabelle]

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.

[@aptalsandvic5355]

@@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.''?

[@coshheraexe7308]

His wife was so strong, giving him a sense of normalcy throughout all of that as she acted happy and positive and refused to cry around him. Honestly makes me believe in true genuine love, the way she was able to keep such a brave face to give her husband a little bit of comfort is amazing

[@marshallleevalentine]

This is the first retelling I’ve heard that actually kept the humanity of the doctors involved. I appreciate that and it’s why I love your work

[@refusingtoconform]

The portion of the video where the nurses and doctors recount about Hishashi's character moved me to tears. It feels almost cruel that such sweet, simple people can suffer excruciating fates from a single mistake. A rookie mistake, literally.

[@bentrod3405]

It wasnt even his mistake either. He just wanted to be helpful. If he had just sat back he could have lived. Sadly big corporations often dont care about anything other than their bottom line. That includes their employees. So instead corners are cut and then accidents happen. Then they get a fine thats practically a slap on the wrist and the world goes on.

[@LilyKatina]

Seriously, this is just too sad. 😞 And on top of that the medical team and his family who tried everything they could to save him are being slandered even to this very day for how they handled the situation. Too many people forget the severity of Hisashi’s case wasn’t seen before and there were very strict legal guidelines for letting terminal patients die at the time. I don’t think anyone but the company is to blame for this tragedy.

[@xlnuniex]

It always seems like the really good people suffer the worst fates. It’s really sad. I cant begin to imagine the pain he felt.

[@yukikathleen2139]

Something I’d like to add that brings extra meaning to the family’s dedication to hope… in Japan, it is a long known legend that folding 1,000 paper cranes will make a sick person soon get well. I remember my mom telling me this story growing up. Makes the mention of the paper cranes that much more heart wrenching.

[@DavidJohnson-jp4mw]

Truly his family was doing every thing they could think of to save him then. Thank you for the information about the paper cranes.

[@bobbiecapewell5333]

Ok THAT made me feel more emotional than anything in the video

[@angie_j]

There is a story called "The day of the bomb" by Karl Bruckner. In my language it's called "Sadako wants to live". Follows a girl suffering from consequnces of Hiroshima bomb folding 1000 cranes to get her wish to live. It was mandatory middle school reading in my country. I bawled my eyes out reading it. Its a really good book.

[@thedoomofred5174]

@@angie_j, we also read it and learned to fold cranes

[@roofking234]

So sad that it didn't work for him, but truly, what a ridiculous legend or folklore to believe in! Nothing new for Chinese or Japanese cultures, as they believe in the MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS, which is why endangered tigers and bears and sharks are decimated by these primitives constantly, and they are a scourge on our planet and to many living things. FACTS

[@TalkingSoup]

i think the coolest thing about wendigoon is that he always manages to find the tragedy, the humanity and the hope within the most horrifying events. he never sensationalizes anything, he just talks about what happened and highlights the human side of these things.

[@vulpes7079]

He's used to grasping at the straws, he's a devout Christian

[@itsnathanu8924]

@@vulpes7079 How is finding the humanity and hope in something grasping at straws? Haven't you ever been in a bad situation and hoped for the best only for it to go bad? People aren't fully logical or pragmatic and that's the beauty of humanity. I'm guessing by this comment that you are atheist or agnostic as I am. Just like other religions you can be blinded by it, don't let yourself become nihilistic and forget what hope is.

[@biggrease7929]

This is really intelligently spoken thank you for putting this into perspective 💯

[@SilharaTheChosen]

​@Vulpes you just wanted any excuse to slam his beliefs huh? I'm not a fan of the religion myself but come on man completely uncalled for.

[@thedoggo6618]

​@@vulpes7079 how dare he have his own personal beliefs while you grasp at straws to attack him over any minute detail that is completely unrelated to the comment and video grrrrre

[@shawnsmith2591]

As a 2nd year medical student I’m really impressed with how effectively you conveyed complex medical topics in an understandable, accurate manner

[@chrizzliebear9803]

I’ve heard this story before, but Wendigoon, you told it in such a beautifully compassionate manner. You did this man and his family justice by telling their story in such a gentle and understanding way. I love your honesty and humanity.

[@coreyford3556]

Based

[@a.u.t.057]

@@coreyford3556 shut up

[@Silly_Billy20]

I had heard of it too but the one I heard it from did a terrible job telling this story. I don't mean that in a bad way but Wendigoon is such a great story teller

[@animatedpencilstudios6704]

When I first heard of this story, I had the same impression as most people; why didn’t they just let him die? Hearing this story again, I’m reminded of my own experience with a tragic incident. My father had a massive brain aneurysm burst when I was a preteen. He bled out into his brain for four hours which caused him to stroke twice. When he was airlifted to a neurosurgical hospital, he died and was resuscitated on the helicopter. When my mother arrived at that hospital (I was left with relatives), the surgeon told her it would probably be best to make him comfortable and let him die. She asked how much of a chance he had of surviving. I don’t remember the exact percentage, but it was very small, and if he did survive he’d probably be a vegetable in a nursing home. She demanded they try anyway and stop the bleeding. They were slightly reluctant but did so. He survived and is thriving. You can’t even tell he had his aneurysm. But the point is, I can now understand where Hisashi’s family was coming from. They saw that small percentage of survival just like my mother saw my father’s and they had to take a chance. They had to try. And I don’t think they are horrible for what they did. Because when you’re in those situations, you are forced to make excruciatingly difficult decisions that may or may not work. But you have to try. I’m just sorry that Hisashi, his family, and the hospital staff had to go through such a tragedy. Edit: I’d just like to say I’m not comparing my situation to Hisashi’s. Obviously, Hisashi’s situation was much, much worse. The point of my comment is that I relate to Hisashi’s family having to make tough decisions, especially when someone’s life is hanging in the balance. I’m reminded of this picture of these wolves, one adult and one a pup. The adult is littered with arrows in his back. The pup, on the other hand, only has one arrow but is laying on the ground seriously injured. The point of the photo is while the adult wolf is obviously more injured than the pup and has gone through more, they both can relate to experiencing pain. And that’s all I was saying; is that I relate and sympathize with Hisashi’s family having gone through a traumatic experience myself. I would not dare compare my situation to their’s. I can only relate and was just sharing my experience to show how I relate. Hopefully this helped clear up some things about my comment.

[@laankebygg3685]

I am glad to hear your father survived and is thriving. 💖💖💖

[@wren9815]

this comment was beautifully written. i’m incredibly sorry that happened to your father and i am very glad to know he has recovered. this helped me to see both sides of the situation, and now i can better understand why hisashi’s family made the choice they did. i appreciate you sharing this and you’re incredibly strong for letting yourself open up and be vulnerable in this comment section. i wish nothing but love and happiness for your family, and give your parents a hug for me: your dad is truly a warrior, and your mom is so strong for making it through that terrifying situation. ❤️

[@leftysheppey]

Logic dictates that you shouldn't try, but humans are full of emotion and we're known for making awful decisions based on our feelings. I'm glad it worked out for your dad, though :)

[@animatedpencilstudios6704]

@@laankebygg3685 thank you! He has his good days and bad days, but we are thankful to God he is still here. ❤️

[@animatedpencilstudios6704]

@@wren9815 thank you! I gave them both huge hugs and read your comment to them. It really touched them. I’m glad our experience gave you a better understanding. I pray for happiness and love for you and your family as well. ❤️

[@cmillerart]

I used to be in the "the family was evil" camp until my dad got sick a few years ago. I cannot describe the kind of terror and helplessness I felt when I was told that my dad was likely going to die before his time, I remember the day perfectly. It was crushing and I carry its weight every single day now. He's still with us, but these things change you. It's easy to observe and say "wow, they were so selfish for that" because we, in (hopefully) our comfortable homes and good health, have the luxury to make these judgements and keep scrolling. Your perspective is refreshing.

[@homosexualitymydearwatson4109]

It’s easy to view a situation as black and white when you’re not in that situation, and you’re just an outsider. That’s why instead of reacting emotionally towards a story, we should try and practice empathy.

[@LuvFearlessly]

Not selfish. It’s just hard to be rational and accept reality in those situations.

[@theangelproductions]

You can have good intentions and still commit acts that are objectively evil.

[@dacksonflux]

Saying that it's hard to make that call when it's you doesn't make it not selfish. It still very much is. It is however, understandable that you'd avoid making decisions.

[@merriquelynn]

You also have to think about the person in question and their wish to live. If someone wants to live, tells you they want to live, are doing whatever it takes to have a fighting chance to live, then that wish also needs to be respected. Because a man who loves his family and wants to be with them a little longer also needs to be respected for that wish. This had never happened before. Him and his family believed there was a chance to be okay. The doctors and nurses did anything in their power to respect HIS WILL TO LIVE. They tried their best and pioneered uncharted territory. Sometimes, hope fails. Maybe if he had gotten less radiation exposure then this could have been the story of a man championing against the impossible with cutting edge science and technology and surviving. This story was sad and it’s tragic, but it’s also a story of love. A man loved his family so much that he fought tooth and nail to stay with them. A family loved him back so much that they did everything to try to save his life and respect his wish to live. He was a man who still did the impossible. He lived longer than anyone else and I think that is part of his will to live and maybe that strength came from how much he loved the people in his life. They did their best in the first case of its kind. Sometimes, you can do everything right and try your best but still fail and that’s just the way life is sometimes.

[@kailastname4321]

I’ve only ever heard this story through short form telling, essentially just listing all the awful things that happened to his body without really giving any context, so I’m really appreciative for the deeper, more human approach you took to telling this. Not only does it give context to the loving family and dedicated staff around him that I’d never heard before, but also gave a lot of insight into Ouchi as a person rather than just a victim, which I appreciate a lot. Also, the narrative approach that you took to this was so effective that when you described the moment his wife looked at him after he died and finally allowed herself to start crying, I actually tested up a little too. This is an amazing video, I will definitely be subscribing!

[@Mais___]

"Imagine being conscious in a decomposing corpse", this is what I could sum this guys experience to. His body is dead but he is still there, experiencing every organ detatch from his body, not allowing people to help him fix that due to the risk of bleeding out.

[@alkaedeanira1747]

I am so happy you dispelled the "psycho doctors" take on it. I think that whole narrative boils down to the fact that a lot of people can't wrap their head around the fact people are out there that are willing to suffer a lot to keep living, or for the sake of others. A lot of them are probably are the type of people who want to die over far, far less. Edit- that last part was a bit in poor taste and didn't take people who might be depressed into consideration, apologies, and a clarification: I'd like to think that the family and doctors did their best, they were misguided but definitely not evil or selfish. The family was given hope, there were small signs of recovery here and there, it's hard to give up on someone if there are signs of hope, no matter how small. As for Hisashi, the fact he was willing to even make it past that first lung machine for his family in incredible.

[@cloudftw113]

I'd say it's more hindsight than not being able to perservere on their part. Like most people would ask for that one bullet (and be smart to do so) if they were in that kind of situation because we know that level of radiation exposure is basically unsurvivable.

[@smore-monster]

Yea. The thing I always hear about this is that, people think that the DOCTORS seem that they forced Hisashi alive. Which... obviously not. Hisashi was most likely kept alive by his family just for hoping he makes a recovery. AND NOT THE DOCTORS

[@toad_of_the_sky]

Those who don't appreciate life can't understand how much other people do.

[@nekkobat6876]

Same, I’m sick of this narrative about evil doctors and healthcare workers torturing patients. Everyone I’ve met working in healthcare are so passionate about their patients and just want them to survive and have the most optimal life they can, including me. It hurts when people try to paint us as the opposite

[@Aplesedjr]

I don’t know, I can sort of see why they might think that in this situation. This suffering is at a level within the upper echelons of the worst a human could possibly endure in every capacity. From an outside perspective, it’s not entirely unreasonable to think that anyone who keeps someone alive during it is doing a horrible thing. Now, I’m not saying that the doctors are evil or selfish for keeping the man alive and trying to help him despite the pain he was going through, but dismissing the idea that it was a terrible thing to keep him alive and conscious for much of this regardless of whatever chance he had of making it through it isn’t a well thought out one.

[@luckyjinxer]

You're a very kind and good man. You treated the story with the respect and tact it deserves.

[@marcofransowitz4773]

Yeah maybe when his skin was sloughing off he shouldve used ScentBird ™️, imagine he was really smelly!

[@PiperAtTheGatesOfYourMom]

@@marcofransowitz4773 weird snarky comment but you’re not making any point

[@Mysanthropiya]

​@@marcofransowitz4773 so you're just being disrespectful for the heck of it or what's your approach?

[@marcofransowitz4773]

@@Mysanthropiya hes profiting on this and its gross. You can’t make a wholehearted PSA or passionate documentary about someones suffering and then just shamelessly shill some stupid product in the middle of it.

[@marcofransowitz4773]

@@PiperAtTheGatesOfYourMom its like watching an Anne Frank documentary and they suddenly start making fart jokes and pitching Raid Shadow Legends©️, it comes of as completely disingenuous and ruins the tone, like how do you take that seriously?

[@ThreadedNail]

The amount of dedication from the doctors and the support from his family makes this much more heartbreaking. I hope his boy and wife are doing well. Bless them wonderful people.

[@YayMiko]

Those paper cranes are very meaningful! It’s a traditional Japanese belief that if you fold 1000 origami cranes, you were granted a wish. I believe they also symbolize hope and healing/recovery. It’s very sweet to learn that Ouchi’s father and son spent their time doing that!

[@Brandon82967]

Maybe that's what kept him alive for so long

[@ronnieedge2236]

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

[@Grognack]

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

[@ForgieDusker]

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.

[@hicknopunk]

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

[@jojo1234a]

As a senior nurse, I’d like to thank you for giving this man’s story a perfect balance of science and facts, alongside humanity and the fact that he is a father, husband, son, friend etc. In could be so easy to retell this story with its endless facts and figures, and forget that we are speaking of a human being, with love, memories, feelings, and all together sentience. The fight this man had is astonishing, alongside the fight of the medical team and the family. I have witnessed some incredibly awful deaths in my career thus far, but none even as close as this. May he rest in peace, and my thoughts are with his loving family.

[@urielgrey]

I wanted to thank you. Nurses are so wonderful and have helped me when I was sick. I can see from your comment you also are one of the amazing people who give us patients hope and strength. Give us the feeling of dignity when the most embarrassing human bio stuff occurs. Thank you and i for one really appreciate you!

[@jojo1234a]

@@urielgrey that’s incredibly kind of you to say, and it means a lot to those of us who chose a career in nursing. It’s more of a calling rather than a career. You either have it coursing through your veins, or you don’t. Like any job, there are ups and downs of course, days when we dread going it, there is burn out, but let me tell you a secret. On the whole, nurses, no matter how grumpy or overtired they are, love their job and love their patients, and love people and humanity as a whole. There are bad eggs in every batch for sure, that’s across the board of any jobs or groups of people, but nurses love you. And when embarrassing things happen that is totally normal to the human body, when we say it doesn’t bother us and we have seen it all, we actually mean it. Our sense of smell has almost completely gone, we don’t have to “stomach” things because we don’t even notice things anymore. If there is human biological material around, we notice you, we want to help you, and we truly don’t even bat an eyelid at the rest of the situation except perhaps to examine the material to keep an eye on your health. With wonderful patients such as yourself, it makes our day …. Sometimes, despite being busy, we love to take a load off our feet and stop for a chat with our patients, not because we feel obligated to, but because we love you as one human to another. When you get discharged back home, we sometimes find our minds wandering weeks or months later thinking “I really hope they are doing ok, what a super patient they were”. Some patients we remember forever, I sure do. I can safely say that those nurses who cared for you had you leaving as much a mark on their heart as they did on yours.

[@peterwolf8395]

Sadly his medical knowledge was shitty and faulty. The karyogram was named wrong. Also the stem cells of the skin are not in the sub cutis they reside in the stratium basale of the dermis. Also he fallen to explain the competition of cells in the body. By Darwin the healthy cells with time usualy replace the sick malfunctioning cells. Also the bonemarrow doesnt give you universal stemcells but pluripotent myelitic cells for blood and lymphatic cells basicly it regen erated his blood but that would not heal his skin cells as there not replaced by blood stemcells.

[@TitanOf_Earth]

Thank you for clarifying the misinformation around Hisashi's death! I fell victim to believing that photo of the burn victim was him, as well as thinking the doctors were practically doing experiments on him, so I appreciate the clarification. Rest in peace, Hisashi. You fought harder than anyone else, you deserve the peace that comes. 🕊

[@patchouliskunk]

If this "human taffy" photo wasn't this man... who was it???

[@ReiAnikaAyanami]

​@@patchouliskunkhe says it in the video, it's a picture of a burn victim from a medical text book.

[@FC01]

​@@patchouliskunka unnamed burn victim, wich made a full recovery afterwards.

[@cindypittman8776]

Reminds me of my husband with Covid. He survived 47 days. His lungs were totally destroyed. Both lungs collapsed and he started needing pressers to hold his BP up. I gave him every chance to fight and hang in there. The more they did 24-48hours was better and then it always got worse. At 47 days I told them to let him go. I had watched our best friend draw his last breath, my father was next, and then my husband passed away. Since his death two years ago I have lost my mom in December. Death is something I’m very familiar with as I am facing my death because of Terminal Brain Cancer. None of us get out of this life alive. If you know Jesus then death is nothing to fear. God bless

[@clrum9427]

how are you?

[@alexmcp5153]

As horrific as the pain this man suffered is, it is genuinely kind of inspiring how hard these doctors fought for him. We can't call them evil for keeping him alive when this was a completely unprecedented thing to endure

[@zackinblack]

The doctors were frauds and allowed a man to be tortured continuously in an effort to get recognition for their work. I’ve studied this case for YEARS. I can tell you that these doctors kept this man alive for the purpose of medical experimentation and lied to the family members about “hope” to keep their experiments active. It truly was a sick case

[@silis4645]

I feel like even if this man was conscious throughout it all and wanted to die fully and even begged for it i feel like he STILL wouldn't put it against his family for making the decision to stay alive. He wouldn't see them as evil for that.

[@jiggyniblet4295]

I blame them for not informing him properly. His situation was unprecedented, but we know what radiation does to DNA. If they told him more about why he was certain to die, maybe he wouldn't have suffered like he did.

[@WonderDerek]

@@jiggyniblet4295 Thank you! I say that and get lambasted by people. There is nothing that can be done to reverse radiation induced chromosomal aberration. The doctors knew his chromosomes had that around day 14 or so, but they kept him suffering for another ~70 days. It's disgusting. Patients AND the family have and deserve the right to be fully informed to make fully informed decisions. At one point, the family was asking how long will treatment continue and Maekawa wouldn't answer them. He just fed them false hope over and over again.

[@HinderGirl1221]

@@WonderDerek i completely agree. I don’t think they were evil & I admire all of the hard work they did to keep him “alive.” But whether he agreed to it or not, I think his being kept alive was extremely inhumane.

[@lilavrillover]

As someone who read sadako and the thousand paper cranes alot as a kid, finding out his family was making cranes is just truly heartbreaking

[@lilavrillover]

Now making it to the end and hearing they made over 10,000 brought me to tears

[@frostyvr9805]

That book is so upsetting to read

[@anon0325]

this book genuinely changed my life, i’ve never forgotten it. every time i hear a medical story involving paper cranes, i tear up. i can’t believe they made 10000. wow.

[@i8chocolatecake995]

i knew about the thousand paper cranes thing and immediately started crying when Wendigoon mentioned that they were making paper cranes ;n;

[@dethmaul]

​@@frostyvr9805 I read it YOUNG in school. We did it and a paper crane unit, in north carolina, i was maybe first grade? I'm trying to pin a timeline down but can't remember. I'm only sure it's first grade because in sexond grade i switched schools.

[@itsKemia]

If this were the US it would have ended like "Sorry for your loss. Your bill is $372,417,023,127. We offer financing"

[@StingRai08]

yeah... crazy how america's called 'a global superpower' and can't even provide funding to keep its own damn civilians alive.

[@Rabomoje]

If it was in the modern age his chance of survival wouldve been a lot higher. Although his chances would still be low.

[@saran9736]

The sad part 😔 ​@@Rabomoje

[@fredericabernkastel8354]

this poor man was literally melting away alive. holy. his wife is so strong. Heck, the entire family, and hisashi especially, were incredibly strong. Not to forget the doctors and all other medical staff - amazing work. I hope he rests in peace right now.

[@jc_so_riyl]

Many of these people seem to ignore that the family and the wife actually stayed and supported him in the hospital for 83 days too, "selfish" right? I bet these "journalists" are actually just keyboard warriors Edit: since some assholes are still biased so here's a full background. y'all should be glad at how the Japanese heavily toned down their psychopathic attitudes after World War 2. Remember, these are the same people who murdered millions of innocent civilians, and even children, without showing any remorse, remember the comfort women of China, Korea, Philippines? And here they are trying their best to save a man's life without giving up, and yet they still get called "evil". If they just pulled the plug because "there's no hope", people would call them heartless psychopaths because they didn't even bother to look for other ways. You can't please everybody. Hisashi's death might have also become a benefit for radiation victims when it comes to treatment as doctors researched the horrible side effects

[@BloodMarket]

​@@jc_so_riylno doubt at all

[@jokuihmehyyppa]

​@@jc_so_riyl They were selfish, tho. There is a time when you need to think about the suffering your loved one is going through. The extremely miniscule chance for recovery should not cloud your judgement and make you think it's ok to make someone go through all that just bc by some gigantic miracle he might recover.

[@Tethloach1]

scenarios of humanity: 1. People took short cuts, people got hurt, hope was pursued, the man died. 2. Something evil happened, people suffered for it, the man died. 3. People had the best of intentions in a tragic situation, the man died. 4. People had selfish intentions, the man died. 5. Human progress has casualties, the man died.

[@jeffcarlos5780]

Your CAWK WAS MELTING AS YOU TYPED