Storage

my gods... all the samples. just left behind.

The sheer number of samples is unreal.

After the slides have been made, and you have gotten the slices needed for those slides, there is most often a remaining block of wax and tissue. These are stored in case you need more slides in the future. In America, there is a time period of which you are required to store them- I'm not sure how long.

i can see why you used a pseudonym for this location. this is crazy...

In the barrel,

Is it Barbie?

.....(shakes head in speechless awe at the sheer IDEA of "pieces" of so many people just left abandoned out in the open.....). This is sick.

again, it makes no difference whether they're 'abandoned' or in boxes in a storage room. they're just bits of diseased, dead meat.

The path lab i worked in had huge rooms like these. but the worst was the wet samples in bottles, jars, even buckets. whole diseased organs floating in preservation fluid in huge plastic tubs, all stacked up. nasty.

Again, OK when "handled appropriately", (cleanly stored in a storage room, etc...), but CLEAN THEM OUT when the building is closed (or get it taken care of soon after).

I love all the creepier photos - maybe its just me. Though I have to agree with several comments on the bio-hazard nature of these samples lying around. To me anyway it would seem that someone somewhere may want to preserve these abandoned samples - and further study them. Probably not ALL of them but still I'm sure with today's medicine a lot could be learned by looking at even a small sampling of these 'waste' samples.

I am curious to find out regarding the bio-hazard issue, does anyone know - if after a certain period of time - any diseases present in tissue that is on already existing/prepared slides still would exist in the tissue on the slides; and the same ? for the samples in wax - would any pathogens survive that long of a time frame outside a controlled climate?

In this case, weren't most of the patients who were (ahem) "euthanized" just individuals with mental or physical disabilities who were being cleared out as part of the Action T4 program? For whatever reason, they did autopsies on a lot of them, but I wonder why they took so MANY samples? Quite obviously they weren't needed. Many of these samples, then, would not actually contain "diseased" tissue... or am I off base here? (God knows I've been wrong before... a lot.)

:-)

I wouldnt be looking in the barrel lol

wow these people loved their samples!

I do _not_ want to know what was in the barrel.
A corpse...
Or Christmas presents.

Ya know....if they didn't leave so much, "Bio-hazard" waste around, we wouldn't be so interested or curious...it just adds to the appeal of the photos....and our reactions to them. We are repelled and attracted at the same time.

THE BARREL HAS EMBALMING FLUID

Black and white photos are your best work....

its odd how its not illegal to leave human tissue samples like this, there are so many!

and i like the depth in this picture, the black & white brings it out especially

Probably blood was in there, ugghh more nasty diseases!!!

Really like this one. It's horrible how much is left behind and forgotten...

it´s easy......a living dead , again runnnnnnnn

the toxic avenger is in the barrel