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When you consider that in the United States one person dies every 12 seconds. I have a feeling that shots like these won't go away.

Without arguing. I would have to disagree. I do think however to see a Morgue shot, with as much equipement in them as what has been captured here will be more and more rare.

ya those bbqs rock

Death is cruel!!!!!

But none the less this is so interesting!!

There must be some wild storie's about thing's that went on in here, I would imagine back in the day frigoration would break down often!

I doubt they ever filled all them up as well..that much ''anticipation'' of death is very odd..you will never see anything like this again..EVER!!

Same stairwell as in SPLINTER-CELL. Still can't make it past that level.

I wish they would let the remains stand and not tear them down for redevelopment. They should declare this a historical landmark.

Redz, you just put it...uh...you put them in the...uh..hmm...i'm sorry i'm having trouble with this "warm beer" concept...

Is it my turn yet, Doc?

Sure the high end scales showed "scalding", but the super advanced model showed "soup"

So finally gave in and asked my mum about this one. She says she has never seen one exactly like this but says it resembles the sort of traction used in patients with severe injuries requiring complete immobiliy. The dial thing at the top is where the pulley system was centred . She did note however that the gentleman in the picture is not situated on it correctly and the original padding is missing. The splayed leg position would be for hip fractures, the straight up arm position would be for forearm traction etc etc.

me and my friends are from washington. We just recently took a trip up to the place. It's really sad to see the place go. It was really cool. We went at night so we wouldn't get any trouble from authority. And let me tell you we experienced some pretty amazing phenomenon with sounds and stange things happening.

Everything is almost gone. Anybody know why they haven't completed the demo yet. And what about the underground tunnels.

Oh crap. Someone's gona beat me up & take my milk.

I asked for a Blood Light!

That's a traction bed. A very OLD traction bed.
Traction was used in patients with oseteopathic injuries. Bone fractures for use lay people.
Traction is applied to help straighten long bone injuries. (Femur, Humerous)
Traction is also used in the spinal injuries.
Before we really learned that many spinal injuries were paralyzing and that there was no (and is no) real way to reverse the damage. Patients were put in traction, to help realign the spine. Mostly to help keep the discs between the bones from calcifying, or deteriorating to the point where bone would rub on bone causing the patient more pain.

For many spinal cord patients. Traction was and still is torturous. You cannot move ANYTHING. There is no turning your head, moving your wrists..nada.
A very real idea of a traction patient is believe it or not.. In a movie. Born of the 4th of July has a scene in which Tom Cruise was in a VA hospital in traction..

While much of the other goings on around it were a bit fantastical. No nurses coming to help clean up vomit. No nurses coming in to care for the patient.
(Yes.. things like that did and do happen) but not because these nurses are being cruel or intentionally mean.
What people don't realize is that nurses, like other medical care workers have to put priorities on things. Sadly, cleaning up vomit is at the bottom of the list if you have a patient not breathing. Sorry.

Since the use of this particular kind of traction table (or bed) we have learned leaps and bounds on matters of long bone and spinal cord injuries.
Unfortunately, it did have to come at the expense of comfort of some people.

Remember.. Medicine is a Practice. It is not an absolute.

you thrust your torso out, you thrust your torso in, you thrust your torso out, and you shake it all around..and thats what its all about!

If the fridge is off, how do you keep the beer cold?