observe an autopsy

I want to know what they did to my Husband. he was in a car wreak 2 years ago

My brother committed suicide a week ago. I’m trying to get some answers as to why they didn’t do a toxicology report or an internal autopsy. Hopefully this will answer some questions. 3 years ago

It’s a hard thing to experience. I’m grateful I had the chance to do it but knowing those people had been alive 24 hours before I saw them…it’s really sad. They don’t look real when they’re laying there being cut open. I broke down about a half an hour after leaving, all 3 that I saw were suicides. Try to distance yourself from the emotional side of the experience, try to see it just as a body and not as a person. It won’t be easy. It’s a tough balance to find b/w still being compassionate but not getting too close to the person. 3 years ago

I attended 4 autopsies during Law School for the Forensic Medicine and Pathology course. I was kinda curious and scared at the same time. At the end it turned out to be quite a positive thing because one gets to face death in a more natural way. Death stops being this moral and ontological mistery to rest as a biological and irreversible fact.Just dont turn it into a fetish goal, ok? 4 years ago

It worth doing if you feel that you can handle it. Death is not very pleasant and for me this was more like an exercice. I am stronger and wiser.Think twice before doing it! 5 years ago

I used to take jobs that others wouldn’t because they were depressing or scary. One of them was “outcomes analyst” where I would read through medical histories and check up on what happened to people. This was a strange and worthwhile job. One of the things I had to do was go through the standard autopsy. A much longer version that the short five minutes to keep one’s interest on the X-Files or some TV show.

Sometime grand rounds at hospitals will involve a visit to the morgue. I dunno if all the September 11th stuff changed any of that. If you are on a list you get told about “Grand Rounds” or sometimes they will be posted on the “paper bulliten board” in a cafeteria or longue. You can just show up and hang around and the person leading the grand rounds will start at some point and will lead people around. In general one can at pauses ask polite short questions. If you have some expertise you will be asked some questions about various things in your area of expertise. Like if you are good at tracking down “Does” you will be asked about that. It’s been a long time since I did this. It is one of the things I might jump back into if I could.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve 5 years ago

The human body is a marvelous piece of engineering. while it is strange to watch a once living person being cut into, it is also fascinating. I used to volunteer to go to the morgue at night but I’d end up scaring myself silly thinking that all the noises I heard were ghosts. 6 years ago