"Would you mind to tell me about your anatomy dissection classes?"I asked a medical undergraduate who is studying at an overseas American medical school. She had recently passed anatomy and was new to clinics. She told me how they first entered dissection hall with a ceremony to pay respect to the cadavers and how they used to send letters to their family thanking and appreciating them for letting them dissect on their dear ones and how at the end they used to provide a proper burial for the dead bodies. First day at the dissection hall is a life changing experience for most of the medical students, if not for all.
I never had seen dead bodies so close and so direct until I entered dissection hall. But we had traditionally been instructed to treat the dead with kindness and respect as part of religious duty. Whenever we visited the home of the deceased to view the dead, utmost care was…
