The woman who volunteered to have her body frozen and 'milled' into 27,000 hair-thin slices to become a 'digital cadaver' for science - and even asked to see the saw that would take 60 days to cut her
Mother-of-two Sue Potter, who emigrated to the US after surviving Nazi Germany, died at 87 in Denver in 2015
In 2000, she thought she had a year to live so she pledged her body to the University of Colorado
She wanted to be embalmed, sliced up and digitized for the purpose of teaching
But she ended up living 15 years and in that time recorded herself so students understand the woman behind the medical records
She regularly visited the lab to see how her body would be sawed up and photographed, the fridge where she'd be kept, and to meet the students
Now, National Geographic has published an inside look at her 15-year journey in the January 2019 issue of the magazine
By Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 18:47 EST, 13 December 2018 | Updated: 17:21 EST, 14 December 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6493685/The-woman-volunteered-body-embalmed-frozen-sliced-27-000-times.html
