He spoke of the time he was working on a woman victim who had awakened from anesthesia while being vivisected. The woman interviewing him asked what happened. “She opened her eyes.” “And then?” “She hollered.” “What did she say?” Kurumizawa could not answer, then began weeping feebly and murmured, “I don’t want to think about it again.” The interviewee apologized, waited a few seconds, and tried again for an answer. He gave it through sobs. “She said, ‘It’s all right to kill me, but please spare my child’s life.’” Four months after this interview, Kurumizawa died. A
