Patrick Batchelor

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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The story of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a convicted murderer executed in Texas in 1993. His body was donated to science, cut into tiny sections and scanned into a computer model, thereby achieving a certain posthumous fame as the source of an Internet site for anatomy students.

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