Chapter 86. Case 14: The smell of corpse smoke
When Political Commissar Liang heard me ask, he probably didn't understand what I meant, so he said to me, do you mean the taste of formalin? There is no smell in the morgue, most of them are the smell of disinfectant water. Since he replied, I knew that I must have guessed wrong, and I thought that what they smelled was the smell of rotten eggs that ghosts produce when they appear. Commissar Liang went on to say that the smell of our medical staff was, according to his own words, like the smell of smoke.
As soon as he said this, it was my turn to be puzzled, this morgue is absolutely non-smoking, and the work area of the hospital should be forbidden, how can there be a smell of smoke? Political Commissar Liang said that when the other party reported at that time, we thought it was ridiculous, but what the staff said later made us pay attention to it. He said that the paramedic followed the smell and realized that the smell was inside the house, not from outside, and then found a body. Everyone knows that the corpses in the morgue are stored in the kind of drawer-type freezer, and most of the ones stored in it are stored without being able to contact relatives or relatives have their own reasons, and after the medical staff opened the lattice of the corpse, they found that the cotton balls that were originally stuffed in the nostrils and mouth of the corpse had fallen to the side, and the eyes were slightly open, as if they were dead.
In fact, I know that after the death of a patient, the doctor usually performs a resuscitation first, if there is no way, he will copy the time of death, and then fill the nostrils and mouth of the deceased with cotton balls. This is said to be to prevent bacteria, because when people die, they only breathe out but do not take in, and the germs in the body do not die with the host after the body dies, so it is necessary to block several air outlets. Political Commissar Liang went on to say that our medical staff had been working in the house for more than ten years, and he was a gay man, and he had seen the most terrible corpses, so he thought that he might not have closed his eyes because the doctor had forgotten to deal with it, so he reached out and wanted to press the eyelids of the corpse.
Political Commissar Liang said, the blame is in this place, the temperature of our freezer is very low, in order to prevent the corpse from decomposing, at such a temperature, the dead person's body will be stiff, because of the relationship between the freezer, it will become stiff, the eyelids have no bones, so you can still try to press back, but when our medical staff closed the eyes of the deceased, they found that the body of the corpse was still elastic, although it was already frozen, but it was still very easy to close the eyelids.
Political Commissar Liang said that he didn't think much about it at the time, closed his eyes and sniffed it again, and found that the previous smell of smoke had dissipated, so he didn't take it seriously, pushed the cabinet back again, and then went about his own business, but it didn't take long for him to smell the smoke again, so this time he went straight to the previous corpse, intending to carefully check where the strange smell came from. I found that the eyes of the corpse that had been closed by myself had opened again, but the black part of the eyes had already turned gray and white due to freezing.
Political Commissar Liang went on to say that he felt very strange at the time, but he still didn't think about it, but closed his eyes on the corpse again, but this time he checked the other parts of the corpse a little more, and this time he found that the muscles on the corpse's face were still elastic, and even the joints on the body were still loose. Political Commissar Liang took a sip of the teacup on the table and said, in other words, except for the loss of heartbeat and body temperature, the body was not stiff.
The medical staff had worked for more than ten years, and had never encountered such a situation, and it stands to reason that even if there was no cryopreservation, the corpse would naturally stiffen after death, so he regarded this problem as a problem, pushed the corpse back again, and carefully checked the temperature of the freezer, and was about to call and ask the department where the corpse was sent at that time, when he smelled smoke again, and in addition, he heard a "click" sound from the freezer.
I reached out and kneaded my ten knuckles, and asked Political Commissar Liang if it was like this. Because I grew up often because of exercise, I like to knead my fingers, every time I feel very comfortable after the ring, occasionally encounter one or two fingers can not be pressed, I still feel uncomfortable, it seems that the ideal has not been achieved in general, obsessive-compulsive disorder, I know the way. After hearing my voice, Commissar Liang shook his head and said to me, then he didn't know, because he was not at the scene at the time, and he couldn't confirm whether the medical staff heard such a voice at that time.
Commissar Liang continued, but none of that was the point. When the paramedic smelled the smoke again, he opened the freezer again and pushed the body out, only to find that the corpse had not only opened its eyes again, but also looked at the side where the paramedics were standing, not only that, but the corpse's originally closed mouth was also opened, and the cotton balls in its mouth and nostrils fell out again, and bursts of white smoke came out of its mouth, which came out of its mouth, but it seemed to be poured into its nostrils.
After Commissar Liang said this, he actually paused, and the sudden silence in this office made me very uncomfortable. Hu Zongren laughed at this time, saying that this dead man's addiction to smoking is quite big, hahaha! I quickly kicked him and asked Political Commissar Liang, so the smell of smoke came from the corpse's mouth, right?
Political Commissar Liang nodded yes, he said that the medical staff was frightened at that time, this often walks by the river, how can he not get his shoes wet? Although medicine is rigorous and scientific, the fear of dead bodies is innate, and no one can change it, even if a person believes that there are no ghosts in the world, let him see this scene, and the stimulation is probably much greater than those who have always believed. I nodded, what Political Commissar Liang said is indeed what I want to say, there is a saying that the ignorant are fearless, in fact, it is not necessarily so meaningless, many people think that when they live at ease, they are full of happiness, but because he has not really understood the terrible things in the world.
Commissar Liang told us that the medical staff immediately fled from the morgue and did not forget to lock the door before leaving, and then called us on their mobile phones. So we immediately sent someone to find the paramedics, and then we found out what had happened.
I asked Political Commissar Liang about when this happened. Political Commissar Liang told me that according to the report handed over by the department later, it was almost half past two in the night. I was puzzled and asked Political Commissar Liang that I also went to the morgue when I was a child, and that place was scared to death during the day, so why were there still people there at night. Political Commissar Liang told me, how many years ago did you, now that the hospital is large, on average, a patient dies within a few hours for various reasons, and our morgue is 24 hours a day.
Political Commissar Liang went on to say that after understanding the situation, the hospital instructed several other medical staff to go to the morgue together, intending to verify the authenticity of the matter, because working in such an environment, no matter how strong the psychological quality is, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no day of collapse, and we are also worried that the medical staff is under too much pressure and produces some absurd hallucinations. However, after examining the corpse according to his description, it was found that the corpse was exactly the same as he said, except that there was no smoke coming out of the mouth and no smoke was smelled at the scene, the corpse was indeed soft and not stiff. So we began to investigate whether there was any problem in the process of disposing of the corpse, the deceased is the greatest, we can't cause damage to the corpse because of our negligence, the patient's family is already in great pain because of the loss of their loved ones, in this case, how can we pour salt on the wounds of others.
I secretly praised in my heart, this political commissar Liang spoke properly, and he is not quite the same as many people in the medical system I know, he seems to be more compassionate, and I also have a lot of friends in this system, most of them are because they have seen too much life and death, for death, a little numb, this is caused by the profession, and they can't be blamed, who stipulates that I will be sad when the patient dies. Political Commissar Liang went on to say that we did not publicly investigate this matter, but found the chief doctors of several departments to consult and consult the corpse, and everyone could not know why the corpse was not stiff after death, and repeatedly opened his mouth and opened his eyes, such a situation was something that several of our old doctors who have been practicing medicine for decades could not answer, until this time, one of the doctors present said this, saying that the deceased was a patient in my department before, and the family was still arguing over the funeral expenses and compensation when he was dying. It's all the last step of life, and it's going to be bad again, and it's really dead. Political Commissar Liang said, that is, the doctor's sentence of not turning a blind eye made everyone start to think in this direction, is there a possibility that the deceased is really unwilling to die, and then deceives the corpse?
I've heard of corpse fraud, but I've never encountered it, and if this case is a corpse fraud, even if it's the first time I've encountered it. I asked Political Commissar Liang which department the doctor who said this at that time was from. Political Commissar Liang said that it was a thoracic surgeon, and the patient died of lung cancer.
What is the connection between dying of lung cancer and smoking after death?