Thanks for the haunted life-organ Dr Frankenscience.
If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Dmitri Shostakovich!
I am a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year I started music lessons of any sort. I wrote the first of my fifteen symphonies at age 18, and my second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when I was only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put me on the Enemy Of The People List for life. I nevertheless kept composing the works I wanted to write in private; some of my vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And I somehow was NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole my glasses and broke them!
Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test
I just heard something really creepy on NPR. They did a successful heart transplant where instead of freezing the donor's heart after removing it, they hooked it up to a "miniature heart-lung machine" and kept it beating and living outside the body while they waited to install it in the recipient. My question for you science- WHAT IF THE OLD SOUL DOESN'T DETACH?!
If Richard Nixon's head isn't already living in a jar, it will be soon ;)