Sorry, don't have the heart to come up with a picture.
People look fake after they have died.
They look fake because they have been soaked in an aqueous solution of 5% formaldehyde, because they are exposed, under the daylight, to the unabashed gaze of future medecine students.
They look fake because they have been soaked in an aqueous solution of 5% formaldehyde, because they are exposed, under the daylight, to the unabashed gaze of future medecine students.
The tissues look spongy, and the skin, "elastic-y".
Toy-like.
Apart from the blue-green cloth that covers the rows of inert bodies, everything is suspiciously beige: the light brown of overcooked marinated porc. Much less vivid than what we are used to look at. The arteries are not red, nor are the veins blue. With a first look, the fat and the muscle and the tendon are just a big blob of stuff, a dead tangled mass. I guess one would come see its inherent organized structure with practice.
Imagine this room without out that thin cloth, twenty-some dead people, outnumbering by far those alive, what a sight will that be?
Toy-like.
Apart from the blue-green cloth that covers the rows of inert bodies, everything is suspiciously beige: the light brown of overcooked marinated porc. Much less vivid than what we are used to look at. The arteries are not red, nor are the veins blue. With a first look, the fat and the muscle and the tendon are just a big blob of stuff, a dead tangled mass. I guess one would come see its inherent organized structure with practice.
Imagine this room without out that thin cloth, twenty-some dead people, outnumbering by far those alive, what a sight will that be?
The most human part of a dead body is not the face, nor the hands.
It is the hair.
Especially when you see it on half a skull, emptied of the brain.
The sectioned head reminds me slightly of a bowling ball, of course, it is far from a perfect sphere.
It is the hair.
Especially when you see it on half a skull, emptied of the brain.
The sectioned head reminds me slightly of a bowling ball, of course, it is far from a perfect sphere.
I now understand the importance of vigorous higienic standards for a human anatomy lab.
There shouldn't be any eyeballs rolling around in the sink.
nor should there be a visible layer of grease,
or bone ligament fragments lying around,
or bits of ear lobes, when we think about this.
There shouldn't be any eyeballs rolling around in the sink.
nor should there be a visible layer of grease,
or bone ligament fragments lying around,
or bits of ear lobes, when we think about this.
Oh,yes, there was a sign on one of the walls.
It beats the one that I've always secretely admired: Human blood, perishable, form Hema-Quebec.
The garbage can is for HUMAN REMAINS only.
It beats the one that I've always secretely admired: Human blood, perishable, form Hema-Quebec.
The garbage can is for HUMAN REMAINS only.
Will you donate you body for the sake of scientific advancement?
Anyway, I don't think that I'll have that decision to make.
I will be dead.
Anyway, I don't think that I'll have that decision to make.
I will be dead.
