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Charles Wade-Palmer & Laura Sharman & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Man cut in half by forklift told doctors to save him even if he was 'just a head'

A man who was cut in half in a horror forklift accident told his family he wanted to survive even if he was just a "head on a plate."

Loren Schauers, 20, was operating the vehicle on a bridge when he fell 50ft, with the truck slicing off his arm and crushing his lower body in September 2019, the Mirror reports.

His family then had to make the unimaginable decision of whether to let doctors save him by amputating from his abdomen downwards - and risk Loren waking up to regret the choice.

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