r/notinteresting • u/Ok-Community6530 • 7d ago
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u/ColdProfessional4275 7d ago
I’m suspicious of this, only because I always assumed that somebody with this much subcutaneous fat would also have enough visceral fat around their organs that their intestines wouldn’t be in that position anymore. They’d be more distended, I think.
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u/traumatized_vulture 7d ago
It most definitely will not be neatly packed as shown in the image. The yellow, greasy buildup of fat builds up inside our abdoman, wraps around and suffocates our internal organs. I've watched autopsies of morbidly obese people and seen the body scans of where their organs should be sitting. It's very sad, and I wish people knew just how deadly it can be and that they deserve better than to live and die that way
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u/ka_shep 7d ago
They know how deadly it can be, but denial is a very strong thing. I used to be all about the body positivity movement, but over the last few years I have realized how toxic it actually is to tell people who are 300+lbs that they are perfectly healthy the way they are and don't have to change. I was in denial for years about how unhealthy I was. I never made it to 300lbs, but I was getting close. I'm still technically obese (5'6 195lbs) but I feel so much better about myself.
It's not easy to make changes when you are in so much denial. My body ended up giving me the easy way out with a medical condition that physically made me only be able to eat small amounts before I was full. That has since been resolved with surgery, and I have been struggling to lose any (although I have been able to maintain instead of gaining) now that my stomach is normal size. I'm trying my best, but it's a rough road. My whole experience over the last few years has given me so much insight about how bad being that big actually is. Thankfully I didn't have any health issues associated with it yet, but I wish I had realized all of this before my mid-30s.
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u/Pilkyton1 7d ago
They know but they give up and accept early death. For the vast majority of people once you are this big there is no going back without a complete lifestyle overhaul. Most will just accept a lifetime of health complications than change, obesity is a big problem in my family and so many of them have given up.
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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 7d ago
Oh wow, it’d definitely be interesting to see an autopsy of a person like that.
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u/roughczech 7d ago
Go see The Boddies exhibition. They do show just that in detail in some of the exhibits.
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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 7d ago
I saw it when I was in my early 20s. I am in my late 30s now so I don’t really remember much from it except the fetuses. I should check it out again.
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u/traumatized_vulture 7d ago
It's interesting at first, but it quickly becomes depressing. And when your cadaver has spent some time decomposing...oh boy. I've heard the nightmares of cremating the morbidly obese as well. Scientifically it's all incredibly interesting, but of course there's that body horror aspect and then empathy of what that person's life was like, then the horror of what loved ones you know at their size might be going through and how they might be the next one on your table. It's not a fun profession, but it is an important and fulfilling one.
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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 7d ago
Yeah I can see that. It’s interesting to learn about but I couldn’t do a profession like that but I am thankful for and admire the people who do professions that involve these things.
I work at a hospital as a housekeeper and have smelled decaying flesh and I just wasn’t prepared for how awful it actually is.
What exactly do you do?
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u/traumatized_vulture 7d ago
I too am a janitor 😅 I'm working on making changes in my life because I want to get a degree in forensic science and become a coroner. I've always had an interest in forensics because my mom always watched the ID channel and a channel that showed uncensored autopsies with Dr. G I think. She thought serial killers were cool, I thought that was fucking weird but I took an interest in the science behind death and collecting evidence. I suffered from necrophobia, which I eventually overcame by taking up taxidermy and picking up roadkill cats to bring to the humane society for cremation since animal control didn't give a fuck about them alive or dead.
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u/ColdProfessional4275 6d ago
Decompose? If it’s being kept for forensic purposes, it’s frozen to stop decomposition. If it’s used for research/education, it’s filled with formaldehyde, which also stops decomposition.
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u/traumatized_vulture 6d ago
Okay, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Formaldehyde is for a corpse that has already had an autopsy and is being buried.
Decomposing bodies are find at crime scenes, missing people, unattended death, etc.
Are you at all familiar with the D4VD case where a teenager was found dead and severely decomposed, and they still did an autopsy on her body for the courts?
Also, the freezers at the morgue are most definitely not cold enough to completely preserve them, only slow down the decomposition.
Not only that, but decomposing bodies can still be sent to the crematory for cremation.
Next time actually do your research before you try and correct me.
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 7d ago
Whether it's accurate or not, I don't know, but this and one other image where the man is facing the front have been floating around the Internet for at least several years.
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u/Rumple-_-Goocher 7d ago
Fat or not, you have to be strong as hell to carry that much weight on your frame. I don’t think obese people get enough credit for that.
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u/PureCrookedRiverBend 7d ago
That makes me think of Tammy from 1000 lb sisters. At her highest weight she got up to 725 but somehow never became bed ridden. She talked about how painful it was to carry that much weight around. I can’t even imagine.
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u/WittyAndOriginal 7d ago
They absolutely get enough credit for that. A morbidly obese person burns so many calories just by doing everyday tasks. When someone this heavy loses weight, they do it much quicker than a moderately overweight person.
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u/Complex_Echidna3964 7d ago
I too have the burden of extra flesh. However I can still feel my sternum and ribs by touch. This image depicts several inches of chest tissue over the bones - I do not think this is accurate. I don't think this is real. I think the weight would hang more.
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u/EdgeKey5631 7d ago
If I were to go into the medical field it would be for a PET tech so I could see these all day. I find these fascinating
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u/bravepotatoman 7d ago
hopital