Medics
As a dental student, I saw more than my fair share of dead people ranging from the specimens in the Morbid Anatomy dissection rooms - think of Gunther Hagens work, but more messy - to the delights of a fresh post-mortem. Which was much more dramatic and rather disturbing. Cadavers for dissection are like preserved waxworks; devoid of bodily fluids and divorced from reality. A fresh corpse is exactly that. A person who obviously has ony recently stopped living and breathing. My most upsetting sight at this time was a stillborn foetus dissected so as to demonstrate the disposition of the spinal nerves. It looked far too much like a little baby asleep and I can still think of it today. What any of this had to do with me spending a career drilling holes in teeth I have yet to determine, but there you go. The most recent dead body I saw was that of my father. Sleep well, Old Man.
(lennylaw, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 20:51, 1 reply)

Little Foetussusses
I'm pregnant at the moment. Actually, it seems like I've been pregnant for the last two years on and off, but this one seems to be going the distance *touch wood*

I've got the usual books and things, and I've been surfing on all the sites. It does freak me out slightly that the non-ultrasound pics are quite obviously aborted (in the proper sense of the word) embryos and foetuses. It makes me wonder if they ask permission to keep the little embryos that come out all in one piece for photographic purposes when they d&c.

Morbid I know, but hey, so this QOTW!
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 22:12, closed)