Okay, I have a really gross question. I’ve never been in a medical research facility, I don’t know anything about how cadavers are stored, so this is why I’m asking.
Say a research facility has 10 corpses in a freezer. Over the weekend, the freezer breaks. It’s discovered by a janitor, who calls security, but security doesn’t know what to do, so they let the problem sit until Monday.
Come Monday, it’s discovered that the corpses have completely thawed, and blood and corpse juice has seeped through the ceiling and is dripping down the walls into the lab on the floor beneath.
Why would this happen? The cadavers were in storage, wouldn’t they be kept in some sort of watertight body bag or something? This has been puzzling me all day. Not only am I baffled, but I’m grossed out as well.
Well I don’t know about human cadavers but when I was in physiology we dissected cats and fetal pigs. They were drained of blood and injected with a blue rubber like substance in their veins and a red substance in their arteries. They were also preserved with some sort of formalydihide (sp?) solution. Hence they needed no refrigeration or freezing.
Cadavers or not, if a fridge is considered “critical”, it has an emergency power supply (an autonomous generator). E.G., a hospital would not be lisenced without one. I think that you neighborhood cadaver storage has one. BTW, does your corner fish store has it?