(November 13, 2014 at 5:33 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 13, 2014 at 5:26 pm)Beccs Wrote: I was only doing it as part of my training. I haven't done it for a couple of years now.
I'm always amazed at doctors doing it for their whole lives. I've seen dead bodies at all stages of decomp to last me a lifetime.
Strangely, what got to me the most, besides watching what it did to the relatives, was the banality. People sitting in their beds, an open book still in their lap, sitting in their chairs after having commited suicide by ODing on something, the television still running.
It is insane and it gets to you.
Fortunately I've gone into surgery so I don't see as many dead people - though I have lost patients.
I've noticed I've developed what could be called a questionable sense of humour - possibly dark humour.
Sometimes you just have to or you'd go crazy.
Dying to live, living to die.