Becoming Immortal: Trailer | National Geographic

I'm not afraid of death. My spirit will live on; my soul will live on. My physical body belongs to Dr. Spitzer. This human project was designed by the National Library of Medicine.

We wanted to take photographic slices through a person's body, and you can't photograph the inside with visible light unless it's a cadaver. This is the most high-quality imagery taken of an entire human body that exists.

Susan Potter had a newspaper article to describe the visible human in great detail, and that made her want to be part of this educational process for medical students. It's easy to write a prescription; it's easy to give an injection. There's more to it than that, and that is my project.

So discipline human into putting information and teaching to the entire healthcare profession. Sue reveals a lot to me about her life. I was accused of keeping her a lie just because she was living for donating to be part of this project.

Now I've got to do what I said I would do, and that is virtualize her because that's what I'm committed to.

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