Ok, it's evening here, I'm having a class of ecological law tomorrow and I'm not liking it at all. Actually, I'm avoiding preparation for it by all means possible :) So writing a post here seems like effective way of procrastination :)
Frankly I was planning to write a post like two weeks ago, even started doing it, but vox wasn't nice to me and destroyed all I was writing after one accidental F5.
So, what I wanted to write about is my visit to a morgue. We have a course of forensic medicine and according to a syllabus one class has to be held at a morgue. Well, to be honest I myself didn't subscribe to this course, but this particular class looked like an opportunity, that shouldn't be missed and it was pretty easy to sneak into that class.
Than there was a small introduction, instruction how to behave, what to do in case someone gets dizzy, etc.
Then the was an autopsy. Well, I witnessed complete procedure, from the the very begining, till the end. Not the nicest thing in the world - that's for sure. Afterall, it was a valuable experience, I sure did get some practical stuff from it, but this isn't really that kind of thing that you can tell about your friends with a glass of beer, even if it might seems so.
I find the whole procedure extremely offensive and inhumane. And can't say, even as a lawyer, that it can be by any means justified. All organs are litterary slashed to slices - just like that. Maybe it's only me, but I can't refer to a body that went through an autopsy as a "once alive person" - only as a frame, an empty vessel. That's it - don't want to overhelm you by any other gruesome gory details. But if you dare - I've made several photos (yes, it was forbidden), so you can see how it looks IRL, not in trashy movies.
But the whole thing in general wasn't that gloomy and dark at all. There was one very funny thing. At the beginning, when we just came to the morgue, which is also The Faculty of Forensic Medecine of Kyiv National University, we went to a very soviet-like lectorium, with a cheap tv-set. And than we where shown an educational movie, showing an examination of a dead body on a crime scene. I actually filmed it with my camera.
In the end, after the autopsy was done we were also invited to some local analogue of cabinet of curiosities. It's a lab fool of alcoholised parts of bodies, illustrating different types of unnatural deaths - bullet wounds, asphyxia, broken skulls, you name it. Even had a dead-born kid with a penis on the forehead.