She had even inspected the saw that would eventually cut up her body.
In a first, a woman from Denver volunteered to donate her body and become a 'digital cadaver'.? ?
¡°My last will is to leave something behind that would have an impact on the whole human?race" said Sue Potter, a woman who lived for 84 years before succumbing to pneumonia.?
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Potter, a mother-of-two, died of pneumonia in 2015.?
In the 15 years between pledging her body and her death, Sue documented everything about her life.?Her entire journey has been documented by National Geographic and published in the January 2019 issue.
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According to reports, Potter drew inspiration from an article about the University of Colorado¡¯s Human Simulation Project and their Visible human project and decided to donate her body for the cause.?
Dr Vic Spitzer rejected her at first as she had diabetes, melanoma and various surgeries. She¡¯d also had a double mastectomy for breast cancer. But he agreed on the condition that she record everything for the rest of her life.
Before dying, she asked to see the saw that would slice her and the fridge she will be stored in.
Sue also asked that her body be surrounded by roses and that classical music play in the background while she was being cut up, Daily Mirror reports.
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When Potter signed on to Spitzer¡¯s project, she thought she would die within a year. But she lived for 15 years more and interacted with medical students. By the time Sue died, they had a saw that could automatically slice hair-thin strips for 24 hours a day at astounding speed.??