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Anatomy is a real pain in the ass, to really understand everything you have to start from the ground up, or bone to epidermis. The body is really complicated as you might expect and since evolution isn't perfect how somethings work don't make any sense. In an ideal world I would really suggest getting an anatomy textbook, sadly they're pretty expensive. This is mine but it's pretty expensive.

Since that's likely not the road you'll take I suggest anatomylearning.com and then supplementing with wikipedia (I've found it to be accurate and contain lots of pertinent info). From there expand your knowledge with external sites if you get into it. I've learned the most by seeing and touching cadavers so try to find labeled pictures, I don't have a good source for that because as I said I get to see the real thing. In the mean time I suggest staying away from joints, they have a high concentration of vessels and tendons. Your muscles were designed to protect your body, vessels and nerves are usually under them so if you really want to continue with this I'd suggest staying away from the forearms and legs (in anatomy that's between the knee and ankle). There're lots of tiny muscles there because of all the fine movements you have to do and it'd be easy to cut through them. I'd say you've been very lucky to have not caused permanent damage after all that cutting. Best of luck.

I'm a lady! I started on rotten.com a long time ago, too. I've always been a little morbid I guess, but I am also just fascinated by the things we don't see that (a) we used to or (b) other cultures still do. My mom worked around a lot of medical illustrators for most of my life, too, so I grew up seeing random fetuses in jars and understood the importance of cadavers.

Also, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is one of my favorite books.

But I'd add, as other meta posts have before, that I learned way more than I expected when I started coming here.

As other commenters have noted, this is a picture of Hisashi Ouchi, one of the victims of the Tokaimura criticality accident which killed two people. The dogged efforts of the doctors to save his life, despite having very little medical precedent and history with which to work, are documented in great detail in the book A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness. As the of the book indicates, he died after 83 days, most of which were spent in coma. I purchased the book several years ago and, though the subject matter is sad, it is an absolutely fascinating account of exactly what happens when someone suffers lethal radiation exposure.

A reviewer of the book on Amazon summed up the situation as follows:

"The gentle and amiable patient did not realize for several days that he was what is termed a "walking ghost". While he appeared to be fine for a while, all of his cells were damaged and his death was certain. Pain medication to make him comfortable when symptoms arose would have ordinarily been the only intervention while awaiting the inevitable, but in his case the hospital staff and his family did not tell him that he received a lethal dose and maintained that fiction almost until the day he died. The doctors kept giving him transplants, transfusions, skin grafts, injections and cardiac massage -- a heroic effort overall -- to keep him alive until maybe something would actually help. Since severe radiation sickness is not common, these folks had no real idea what they could do and dealt with symptoms as they arose. And arose. And arose. The fact that Mr. Ouchi survived for months is nothing short of amazing, but perhaps honor and hope came at too high a cost: his incomprehensible CONSCIOUS suffering."

Here is the book on Amazon, if you are interested:

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

When I was a kid we didn't even have to go that far. There was a product called Binaca - a breath spray that came in little spray cans, tastes great, highly flammable. Apparently you can still get it but back then it was at every supermarket checkout for like 50 cents each, and obviously very easy to play off if questioned.

Bought one of these off Amazon because I heard they were good practice for a real butterfly know. Will not buy a real butterfly because I can't make it more than 1 minute without hurting myself with a practice tool.

http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407

Here's a book detailing the 83 days that doctors and nurses struugled to keep this man alive. Amazing book. They were pouring nuclear material from a steel bucket into a large metal container. The material went critical (bright blue flash/radiation). He did not turn into the hulk.

So since op hasn't responded I think I've narrowed it down to two possible books. Mop men and Aftermath:Cleaning Up After the CSI Goes Home

Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home

http://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Specialties-Butt-Game-Dressing/dp/B002ECKYSA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

"A farewell to Arms"

After reading this none of the videos ever really seemed to capture the barbarity of the holocaust. The thing is, the worst parts of the holocaust were not recorded. The videos only show the aftermath. The other thing about the holocaust is that concentration camps and death camps were two completely different things. We know so much about Auschwitz because it wasn't an extermination camp, many people survived Auschwitz. Operation Reinhard, though, you can probably count on two hands the number of people who survived those camps.

From this book? I used to own a copy until someone stole it =/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00BCP0B4W/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1376155291&sr=1-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY190 Killer published books too. Read the reviews.

There's a whole book of this stuff. We read stories aloud as we drove to and from the park. "Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park." Many stories of attempts at hot tubbing the pools, falling into the pools, rocks falling on heads, etc.