I'd read the two news stories with surprise and a doubt as to whether the crimes - yes, they're crimes when looked at from a legal perspective - arose within me as to whether they're prompted out of love, the bizarre ways of expressing it notwithstanding or out of mental sickness! Let's have a quick run through the two incidents, the first in Calcutta and the second in Tokyo.
(a) 'Preserving' Mom.
Subhabrata Majumdar kept his 84 year old mother's body at a constant temperature of -96
degrees Celsius in his bid to preserve it for 25 years. All of 46 yrs, he's a leather technology
graduate and was successful in his efforts to vitrify(The process of preservation in ultra low
temperatures) the body. Note these points:-
(i) Today was the late Bina Majumdar's third remembrance day.
(ii) Body was kept submerged in Formalin.
(iii) Several organs were removed through precise incisions, implying professional help.
(iv) Her husband, Gopal Chandra Majumdar(89) is alive.
(v) Subhabrata's plan was to preserve the body for 25 years by which time he hoped that
technology would have attained the capability to revive a human body, after death,
provided the body was well preserved through 'cryoprotection' used for preventing the
decay of living cells.
(b) 'Protecting' Son.
Yoshitane Yamasaki(73) had imprisoned his son aged 42 at their house. Reports suggest that
the son was forced to stay in a wooden cage, one metre high and 1.8 metres wide, built in a pre-
fabricated hut. The father has told the police that he'd kept his son in the shelter for 20 years as
he had mental problems!
My take.
Why did these two individuals behave in such a fashion? Wasn't it due to the love that the two individuals possessed towards their near and dear ones? Or is it a sheer case of mental instability of the two? The jury is still out on the issue...
(a) Subhrabrata Majumdar is currently being treated at the Pavlov Hospital for mental illness
after his arrest and bail.
(b) Yoshitane Yamasaki is currently in police custody.
Tailpiece.
Vitrifying bodies need a threshold temperature of -85 degrees Celsius. Consider these:-
(a) Normal kitchen freezers can achieve around -20 degrees Celsius.
(b) Lab freezers can reach up to -40 degrees Celsius.
(c) Only a few refrigerants can cool beyond -85 degrees Celsius.
(d) Ultra low temperature freezers can reach -150 degrees Celsius and are used for bone
marrow storage.
PS.
We express our love to our near and dear ones differently. Don't we?
(a) 'Preserving' Mom.
Subhabrata Majumdar kept his 84 year old mother's body at a constant temperature of -96
degrees Celsius in his bid to preserve it for 25 years. All of 46 yrs, he's a leather technology
graduate and was successful in his efforts to vitrify(The process of preservation in ultra low
temperatures) the body. Note these points:-
(i) Today was the late Bina Majumdar's third remembrance day.
(ii) Body was kept submerged in Formalin.
(iii) Several organs were removed through precise incisions, implying professional help.
(iv) Her husband, Gopal Chandra Majumdar(89) is alive.
(v) Subhabrata's plan was to preserve the body for 25 years by which time he hoped that
technology would have attained the capability to revive a human body, after death,
provided the body was well preserved through 'cryoprotection' used for preventing the
decay of living cells.
(b) 'Protecting' Son.
Yoshitane Yamasaki(73) had imprisoned his son aged 42 at their house. Reports suggest that
the son was forced to stay in a wooden cage, one metre high and 1.8 metres wide, built in a pre-
fabricated hut. The father has told the police that he'd kept his son in the shelter for 20 years as
he had mental problems!
My take.
Why did these two individuals behave in such a fashion? Wasn't it due to the love that the two individuals possessed towards their near and dear ones? Or is it a sheer case of mental instability of the two? The jury is still out on the issue...
(a) Subhrabrata Majumdar is currently being treated at the Pavlov Hospital for mental illness
after his arrest and bail.
(b) Yoshitane Yamasaki is currently in police custody.
Tailpiece.
Vitrifying bodies need a threshold temperature of -85 degrees Celsius. Consider these:-
(a) Normal kitchen freezers can achieve around -20 degrees Celsius.
(b) Lab freezers can reach up to -40 degrees Celsius.
(c) Only a few refrigerants can cool beyond -85 degrees Celsius.
(d) Ultra low temperature freezers can reach -150 degrees Celsius and are used for bone
marrow storage.
PS.
We express our love to our near and dear ones differently. Don't we?
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