What it’s like to hold your own heart

Atlas Obscura:

Every time he returns to the hospital, the 74-year-old retired sales and marketing professional contemplates whether or not he should pop in to give his old heart a visit.

Because at Baylor University Medical Center, Bell can do something very few people will ever be able to experience: hold his own heart in his hands.

“It was fairly emotional, that first encounter,” Bell, who lives in Fort Worth, recalls. “I can’t actually explain why. I was just almost overcome with emotion when I was able to hold it.”

This would be incredibly weird, creepy, and emotional.