Picture of a skeleton affected by Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a rare disorder that replaces your muscles with bones (Image credit: Joh-ko / Wikimedia Commons)
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“Any tissue damage, no matter how minor, is repaired with bone.
This is the skeleton of Harry Raymond Eastlack. He was 40 when he passed away.”
“Your own body can kill you more slowly and greusomely than anything else sometimes.”
“Yeah my uncle’s family had this happen to a few family members. Really nasty when it progressed. Led to asphyxiation of one he just couldn’t move his lungs enough to breath. He went to hospice where they took him of life support and sedated him. He passed within the hour.”