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Woman who used Black and Decker drill to bore a hole into her head
live on TV in bizarre health ritual dies a decade later... from drug abuse (Daily Mail)
live on TV in bizarre health ritual dies a decade later... from drug abuse (Daily Mail)
Much more, with pictures and informative trepanning sidebar, at link aboveA woman who drilled a hole in her head in an attempt to cure her health problems has died – ten years later.
Heather Perry, 41, was filmed for US television as she performed the ancient practice known as trepanning, an inquest heard yesterday. She believed it would relieve pressure on her brain, but the attempt ended with her being taken to hospital because she drilled too deeply.
Miss Perry survived and returned home to Newent, Gloucestershire, but turned to drugs.
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Miss Perry claimed in an interview with science blog Neurophilosophy in 2008 that she was inspired to go through with the procedure after hearing John Lennon had wanted to do it.
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One of the most famous people to undergo trepanning is Amanda Feilding [Wiki], now 69, the Countess of Wemyss and March, wife of the landowning 13th Earl, and a friend of the Royal Family. She used a dentist’s drill to perform the procedure at 23.