Completely random stoned hypothetical. Lets day im old as fuck and I decide I’m ready and done. Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I’m still alive? Like give me a ton of drugs and let me watch myself get dissected as my final moments. I understand there is a legal and possibly moral concern, but is it really ethically that bad if I also want it? Like I’m not taking myself out at my prime, I’m nearly dead anyways. Lemme see myself cut apart that’d be cool as shit, only if I couldn’t feel any pain though.

  • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
    39·
    2 months ago

    I know in Germany murder is still murder if the murdered person consented to it.

    Also, an autopsy isn’t just “randomly cutting someone apart”. The point of an autopsy is to determine a person’s couse of death and doesn’t just involve cutting the dead person open. You being alive means that an autopppsy, by definition, cannot be performed on you.

    What you want is someone to mutilate and kill you. I’m pretty sure you can find someone willing to do that.

    Side note: I think you overestimate how long you will stay conscious when the blood starts flowing, painkillers don’t fix your brain running out of oxygen.

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      With Armin Meiwes it was argued that the victim couldn’t consent to being killed because he wasn’t mentally sound. And he wasn’t mentally sound because he consented to being killed.

      I could imagine that if you could convince a court that you are mentally sound beforehand, you could have someone legally murder you.

      The whole eating thing is actually treated somewhat separately because that falls under disturbing the dead

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 months ago

      That’s a good point. “Determining the cause of death” implies that the person is dead. It’s like braiding the hair of a bald guy.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    I believe the technical term you are looking for is a “vivisection”.

    And if you ask a surgeon to do it… “just to see” expect there to be some amount of shock. And maybe some very unfun drugs. Maybe a straight jacket…

  • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Sever your spinal cord so your body is paralyzed. Then you won’t have to worry about pain.

    This would be a wild situation though. Feels like human centipede levels of wild

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Short answer: No.

    As far as I’m aware, the first step in an autopsy is to drain the body of blood before any incision is made. You’d be dead long before you got to “see your insides”.

  • Jafoo@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    “Could I have the same postmortem autopsy done on me while I’m still alive?”

    That would be exploratory surgery, not an autopsy

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    2 months ago

    In general you cannot consent in being assassinated, and even in place where euthanasia/assisted suicide is legal, there is still a strict process to make-it cleanly rather than cutting down a person in piece

  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 months ago

    It’s called biopsy? Anyway if the doctors won’t give it to you, post an ad on the darkweb

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
    31·
    2 months ago

    I think that the Nazis or Japanese did experiments in that vain, but don’t quote me on it. They did quite a lot that makes my stomach roil. As to how far they could get, no clue.

    Either way, once organs start to be removed, you won’t be around for long. Under most circumstances anyways. We do have the ability to sub in machines for failed organs, such as heart, kidneys or lungs, but I don’t know of any cases where all of them have been replaced with machines at the same time with the “patient” still awake during.

    Full life support tends to be a “Buddy, your fucked!” sort of thing and if you’re not already in a coma, they will likely put you in one.