Today I saw my first corpse. No, you didn’t misread: A real dead corpse. (Of course I don’t believe that there are living corpses… ) Unsuspectingly I’m sitting in the forensic medicine lecture, when suddenly the professor begs the front ranks to follow him towards the autopsy hall. So we stand up and trot after him honestly.

Inside the autopsy hall it smells a bit rummy, but it’s bearable. When entering, we already see a bier with a white drapery on it in the middle of the room. Under the drapery we can surmise a body. The professor puts on his gloves and we all stand around the bier and gaze at what is lying there, some of us more curiously, the others less.

The the professor pulls down the drapery carefully so that we can see the torso. The head is covered by a towel. A very thin, nearly white body is lying on the bier. Our dead person assumedly died in consequence of a malpractice, but we don’t know it certainly yet, first the autopsy has to be accomplished. We get shown the postmortem lividity and the incision in his throat for artificial respiration.

A quarter of an hour later it’s over and we return to the lecture hall. At least it wasn’t as upsetting as I had imagined. Appears to be very fragile, such a dead body, you get sort of sad and you become aware very clearly that life will end some day.

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