Comments on: Bobby Fischer’s Body Exhumed https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Birger Johansson https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519682 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:53:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519682 The whole business is a bit sad. Fisher was weird already before the chess game in Reykjavik 1972, and then got weirder.
That a world chess champion, with a potential for books and film rights died with *only* 2 million dollars in his estate shows things got rocky for him.

]]> By: Kapitano https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519681 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:56:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519681 Why would one need to exhume an entire body just to get a tissue sample?

I suppose you could just dig up the coffin, stick a knife in the corpse in the middle of a graveyard, dig out a blob of flesh, plop it into a jar then reseal and rebury the coffin.

But some people might consider that creepy. Even if it weren’t done at midnight by a cackling man in a stained lab coat.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519680 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:02:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/06/bobby-fischers-body-exhumed/#comment-519680 Why would one need to exhume an entire body just to get a tissue sample?

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