On September 30, 1999, a Japanese lab technician named Hisashi Ouchi suffered the worst radiation burns in history after an accidental explosion of a uranium solution.

 On September 30, 1999, a Japanese lab technician named Hisashi Ouchi suffered the worst radiation burns in history after an accidental explosion of a uranium solution.

Then, he was kept alive against his will for three harrowing months as doctors unsuccessfully tried to save him. As the radiation worked its way through Ouchi's body, his skin began to melt off, and his eyes started to weep blood. Even worse, the experimental treatments that the doctors tried were clearly not working. Ouchi cried, "I can't take it anymore. I am not a guinea pig." But although he begged for death, doctors kept him alive for 83 days at the insistence of his family. At one point, they resuscitated Ouchi three times in one hour after he had three heart attacks. It was only when he suffered his last cardiac arrest due to multi-organ failure that his torture finally ended.