Everyone loves games.

Why, hecklerspray will bet you a substantial amount of money that – come Christmas day – you and your whole family will be putting in some serious bonding time over a bout of Monopoly or Pictionary. But here's an idea… why not liven things up next by hauling in a recently-deceased corpse and getting the whole gang to try and figure out the cause of death? It'll be hilarious – Uncle Ernie will no doubt claim it's a heart attack, Grandma Smith will surely angle for a burst appendix, while Cousin Jimmy will probably sit there shouting "motorbike crash" over and over again. Mainly because that's all he ever does.

For some of you, though – perhaps those with new carpets – the notion of letting a dead body seep out its gastric juices all over your living room may be a bit of an inconvenient one. Thankfully, then, the good people over at Virtual Autopsy have taken this into consideration, and launched a spiffing online game which has much the same goal. And allows you to deal with utterly charming scenarios such as this:

"A 13-year old girl was eating her school dinner one November lunchtime. She was eating beans, a chip butty and beef sausages. Halfway through her meal her lips and mouth turned blue and she had difficulty breathing. An ambulance was called and she collapsed and went into shock. The ambulance rushed her to Accident and Emergency, but she died soon after arrival."

Christ – nobody tell Jamie Oliver. He'll have started up another insufferably smug campaign within seconds.

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