No, I have never seen a dead body.
But if you're a med student in Cardiff on your dissection year, you're likely to be seeing my grandad quite soon *snif*. There was no funeral, because he wasn't religious in the slightest (just after he died, my nan had to tell the nurses gently to please take away the bible because he wouldn't have wanted that) and only a celebration of life on Tuesday that I wasn't able to attend, being 200 miles away, so I'm feeling a little lacking in the closure department. Reading these stories is either helping me or not helping, I'm not sure.
( Maladicta, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 12:10, 4 replies)

Hugs
xx
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 1 Mar 2008, 17:27, closed)

i know how you feel
i was only 10 when my grandad died, but he was a wonderful man, kind, gentle and loving. i wasn't allowed to go to his funeral or even to say goodbye, because my parents felt i was too young.
for years i was upset by this, then i went to the funeral of a friend of mine. he looked nothing like he had in life and the vicar conducting the service had never met him, despite the fact that he was quite happy to tell the whole church what a wonderful person he had been.
it took all of this to make me realise that i didn't need a funeral to say goodbye, just like i didn't need to see his body to remember him. you have your memories and they will always be with you. remember him in your own way and a part of him will never die.
*hugs*
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 2 Mar 2008, 0:08, closed)

Thank you both :)
The sad part is that we never really got on till a couple of months before he died, and in that time we really seemed to click :( and now he's gone. *hugs back*
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 12:56, closed)

thanks
if its any consolation donations to anatomy departments are an amazing way to learn bout the body. i learned using cadavers and it definately helped me through my training. it is only through families generosity that this can happen. thanks very much, it really is appreciated by the people who get to benefit from it.

(in my final year at medical school, will qualify in 4 months)
( bertisfantastic bert is a sleepy bear, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 20:32, closed)