Spastic Surgery

Way to Die #711
Spastic Surgery
Name of the death is a pun on "spastic" and "gastric surgery"
"Katrina's new body turned her nasty. The doctor screwed up. But in the end, you can really say Katrina's self obsession was the real... instrument of death."
Information
Date	February 5, 2004
Location	Greensboro, North Carolina
Episode this death was featured in	Death – Putting The "Fun" In "Funeral"
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"Spastic Surgery", Way to Die #711, is the first death to be featured in "Death – Putting The "Fun" In "Funeral", which aired on February 22, 2012.

Plot

Katrina went through a recent gastric bypass surgery and is meeting her husband, whom she wants to divorce with, at a local restaurant. While she presents him with some divorce papers, Katrina then goes into a coughing fit and causes a pair of surgical forceps (which were left inside during the surgery) to rupture her stomach. Katrina then dies on the table.

Cast And Interviewees

• Leah Shaw - Katrina (lead: intended victim)
• Dr. Khyber Zaffarkhan - Interventional Pain Physician

Trivia

• Also known as "Bor D'oh" (perhaps mistakenly) on the Spike TV website.
• It is probably based on Kane's death from the movie Alien.
• On January 19, 2012, A 53-year-old Bolivian woman had to undergo emergency surgery to remove two 16-centimeter long forceps that were inside her abdomen for 16 years after undergoing gallbladder surgery in the city of Cochabamba.

Segment Nicknames

• Bor D'oh (Spike TV)
• Forceps Failure
• Tummy Trauma
• Stomach Pain
• Operation Oops!
• Just What the Surgeon Blundered

Foreign Names

• Cirugía Espástica (Spastic Surgery) - Latin American Spanish and European Spanish dub
• Tosse Cirúrgica (Surgical Cough) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
• Wahre Schönheit kommt von innen! (True beauty comes from within!) - German dub
• Espastika Kuhlisan (Spastic Probability) - Lazoran dub

Gallery

"Give me a divorce!"- Katrina's rudeness is displayed when she shouts at her husband just for what she requested.

"Katrina's self-obsession was the real...instrument of death."