The Virtual Corpse
5.8
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.
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24 people
Victor Spitzer
Himself
Bob Jernigan
Himself
Nancy Abraham
Michael Gerber
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Kaspar Kasics
Michael Ackerman
Himself
Joe Berlinger
Andrea Štaka
Reverend Carroll L Pickett
Herself
M. Watanabe Milmore
Vicky Layfield
Herself
Sheila Nevins
Also in
No One Dies in Lily Dale
Kaspar Kasics Director · Wendy Blackstone Composer M. Watanabe Milmore Editor
United States release January 26, 2003 · Produced in United States · Production HBO, Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)
Production
Swiss Federal Office of Culture
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HBO
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Schweizer Fernsehen (FS)
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eXtra Film
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HBO Documentary Films
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SWR
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Südwestrundfunk
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 26, 2003
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