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48 Thoughts When Seeing a Cadaver for the First Time

This is for all of those anatomy students out there; enjoy.

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48 Thoughts When Seeing a Cadaver for the First Time

1. Okay, we're going in now. Jeez, my palms are sweaty. And it's like Antarctica in here. 

2. It's just a person, they've passed on, it's the circle of life. 

3. JUST BREATHE, DAMMIT. 

4. I'm totally gonna faint. 

5. No, I'm NOT gonna faint. I can DO this. 

6. Nope, can't do it. I want to work on LIVING people. That's why I want to be a nurse, not a coroner. 

7. And we're walking in. 

8. OH MY GOD I HATE THE SMELL OF FORMALDEHYDE.

9. Maybe if I breathe through my mouth, it will be better.... 

10. Lol nope, now I just have the taste in my mouth. 

11. Where's some Vicks VapoRub when you need it? 

12. Oh god, he's lifting the sheet. 

13. Awww it's a cute little old man. 

14. A DEAD little old man. 

15. I wonder who he left behind. 

16. No no no, don't think of the emotional side of it. 

17. DON'T YOU DARE CRY. 

18. Okay, I'm breathing, and I'm better now. 

19. Except for the smell of formaldehyde, I'm chilling. 

20. Okay okay, I can identify parts, this is good. 

21. I kinda want to touch it. 

22. What if it grabs me like in the movies? 

23. Definitely not touching it. 

24. WHAT DO YOU MEAN DO I WANT TO SEE THE FACE? 

25. Are you off your rocker?   

26. Actually, I kinda would like to see it. 

27. Mildly terrified of what I'm about to see.

28. Okay....he only has skin on his nose. 

What even....? 

29. I bet the little old man was cute before.... IT happened. 

30. NO, DON'T SHOW ME HIS GENITALS. 

31. I will walk out of here if I have to see a dead guy's junk, that's all sorts of wrong. 

32. Okay, zipping up the bag, good. 

33. Wait, now it's time for the female? 

34. Can't we just be done? 

35. Apparently we can't, he's lifting the her sheet now. 

36. Awww she's little and old too. 

37. What if she knew that guy over there? 

38. Whoa, she's got red toenail polish on. 

39. I wonder why she chose red. 

40. I bet she was fierce back in her day. 

41. We JUST identified all these parts in the male. Is this really necessary? 

42. I WOULD PREFER YOU KEEP HER LADY PARTS HIDDEN AS WELL, THANK YOU. 

43. NO NO NO, PUT THE SHEET DOWN. 

44. Aaaaand I just saw a dead woman's vagina. 

45. Body number two is being zipped up. We done here? 

46. Perfect, lab's over. 

47. Hey, I didn't faint! Point for me. 

48. And I smell like death now. Great.

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