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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Imagine the scene from her POV. She's claustrophobic and having a meltdown because of all the hums and bangs and then her husband comes running in only to get pulled into the machine she is already stuck inside of. He's screaming and can't get pulled free while she is being pushed even harder into the machine she so desparately wants free from - by her husband who is quickly suffocating to death

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

While you wrote an interesting narrative, if you read the article the story is nothing like this, and even from her point of view would have been nothing like this.

She had asked the nurse to call her husband to help her up from the table. She called out his name and he ran in while the machine was still going.

He was pulled into the machine and was freed eventually but suffered multiple heart attacks after being pulled off the machine. The heart attacks are what killed him in the end in a hospital bed far from the MRI machine. He definitely did not suffocate.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 37 points 1 day ago

It was a knee MRI. She wasn't stuck inside it, she just wanted her husband to help get her off of the table instead of just the technician.

Still a horrible scene though, but not quite as horrific as your first imagining.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There probably wasn’t any screaming. MRIs exert thousands of pounds of force at close range. You can imagine what thousands of pounds of metal would do to a neck.

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

thousands of pounds of force at close range

https://youtu.be/6BBx8BwLhqg

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So tragic, jesus. Also, it was obviously stupid, but in his defense he probably went into fight or flight and wasn't thinking. Unfortunately he paid for it with his life.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago

He went in to help her stand up from the machine.