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I read a whole lot of Oz books back when I was growing up (there's tons of them), and the Tin Man is an example of this. Nobody dies in Oz (don't ask me about the movie), which can lead to some pretty horrible situations. The Tin Man was a regular guy and a lumberjack. One day he gets cursed by someone and he lops off his foot. He can't find it and he gets a tin prosthetic. He then lops off the other foot. And then his legs, his arms, and his torso. He gets tin prosthetics for all of them. Then he lops off his head and gets a tin replacement for that, too.
The reason he never found his body parts is because someone else was collecting them. I think it was a witch? And she would assemble the parts with Meat Glue, which repaired them. And eventually she got his head, which she placed onto his intact body and he lived again, whole and hearty. And then there were 2 people who shared the same memories, the same identity, where there was once one. Oz books were full of body horror.
I read those as a kid, but that's too many decades past for me to remember them much. Amazingly similar.
I imagine that meat glue is chock full of stem cells.
I'd like to see David Cronenberg reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, à la The Fly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film)