Quote Originally Posted by redxiiii
The doctors I would`ve thought they retrieved him from the reactor but his lower half was permanetley damaged, ya know unless he just halled himself out and suddenly realised, "hey would ya look at that my legs have disappeared ha ha"
Doctors didn't recover his body. Sephiroth fell through the Reactor and into the Lifestream, which carried his body to the Northern Crater. The flow of the Planet's Spirit Energy was being constantly directed to the Northern Crater as it was trying to heal that wound.