Released
The Virtual Corpse
January 26 2003 (almost 22 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Kaspar Kasics
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 45 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Swiss Federal Office of Culture, HBO, Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), eXtra Film, HBO Documentary Films, SWR
Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that is available to view online. Convicted killer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science shortly before he was executed in 1993 and this documentary examines what took place after his death by lethal injection.
