yes, lots
My degree was anatomy (therefore invilved dissection) and I'm a forensic scientist now, so I see photos of crime scenes, attend them with the body in situ, visit PM's and am generally well aquainted with the more criminal side of death.

You quickly get over the inital shock of "someone's dead" and it becomes part of the job, but every now and again one will affect you on a personal emotional level and there's often little rhyme or reason as to which it will be.

I've learned a few things:
1) It's incredibly easy to kill someone. I've seen cases where a drunken shove between friends (just playing about, not even fighting) has caused a death as the shove-ee falls and hits their head.
2) Conversely, people can also survive an amazing, horriffic level of damage sometimes and go on to make full or nearly full recoveries.
3) People are astonishingly complicated inside and out and the changes they go through after death thanks to the actions of microbes, animals, insects and such are deeply, wonderfully fascinating and unbelievably varied.
4) Don't have tuna for lunch if you're going to attend a PM.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 11:04, 2 replies)

I've learned too
I agree with those statements. Seen several severe injuries (even suffered a fair few myself, and bounced back.

As for 4, don't eat it if you're on call as well.
(Grey_Ghost has yet to decide on a sig on, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 5:32, closed)

I am eternally grateful
that I don't have to do your job -- I wave your photos around in court, that's bad enough, I REALLY wouldn't want to be there in person. The last photo is always what we call the brain board -- the white board upon which the pathologist has written the weights of the extracted organs. Thank goodness I don't have to see that.
(Exiled Youth [witty comment], Fri 29 Feb 2008, 15:05, closed)