What did you have to disect?

i had to disect a frog in 7th grade. With a dull scapal

i never had to diset anythign!!! woo all i took was gr.9 and 10 science! no others wooooo!!!!! i once did an online disection of a frog, i laughed my ass off it was so gross

Fetal pig.

Seriously.

Honors courses...sheeesh.

screw honor courses! go applied! wooooooooooo

clam, worm and frog in eighth grade. my sister got to cut apart a cat though. and some other kids at my high school were witnessed sticking an electrode up a dead weasel's ass. we still haven't figured out what the hell was going on.

An earthworm. Also with a delightfully dull scalpel.

Well, I am a biology major, so I have had the opportunity to dissect many things:
earthworm
grasshopper
frog
fetal pig
shark
necturus
lamprey
cat

and the grand finale: humans (i dissect these creatures everyday at work)

my sister gets to dissect a full-grown pig, a cow and a horse in her physiology class this semester. bet you're all jealous. i know i am.

you haven't done a true dissection until you've cut open a dead human who has been rotting in his house for a few days and has a nice colony of maggots and flies living inside of him (the smell of rotting flesh is indescribable and by far the most unpleasant odor in the entire world)

or...
until you have seen the body of a man who decided it was time to swallow the bullet of a 12 gauge and no longer has a head from the chin up

or...
until you have seen a nun who decided it was time to end it by hanging herself

or...
until you have dissected a woman who got hit by a car and lost her leg as well as her life

dissections are fun and all, but there is one huge difference: the bodies being dissected in a class are preserved and all fluids have been removed. In the medical examiner's office, we don't get that privilege.

I had to do the pig, too. The frog didn't bother me. The pig was disgusting.

DoNotTrip I WANT YOUR JOB

Once you get used to the smells, it is fun and interesting

Yeah DNT. That shit is crazy. Props. We're all bitches.

its funny when i come home smelling like the morgue and no one wants to be around me. the smell of rotting flesh does not come out of your clothing and hair too easily.

i'd want to be around you. my sister worked in a hospital morgue too. she told me about the buckets of organs and baby holders. nice.

any gore sites you'd recommend, DNT? that's my little hobby.

[url]www.cotw.jena.co.uk/cotw/[/url] 217-p37y/index6.htm

unfortunately this site does not seem to be working right now, but it had a series of pictures that were a good representation of what a typical autopsy looks like. if you surf around the site a bit you would find some cool gore pics. i hope it starts working soon because they had good links to other gore sites that i did not have bookmarked

earth worm
crawfish
fish
and the classic frog

it was funny because when we were done someone(mostly me) would start throwing the leftovers.
some of the fish were female so when you threw a clump of the eggs they would explode on contact.

ahh... those were the days

One kid snuck some frog guts in another kids jacket. He didn't find them until two periods later when he put his hand in it.

frog and rat.
which was fun.

*beware of the bile duct*

very stinky.

we did the worm and a frog in middle school, but i had a really cool bio teacher in HS and she had us cut up all kinds of sea life, a fetal pig, a sheep's eye, a cow's heart (f'n nasty...it's a huge chunk of meat) and a cat. my teacher had all kinds of neat shit in jars, like snakes and fish, but she also had a pretty big collection of aborted fetuses (feti?) which was interesting, but a little creepy at the same time.

grade 10: perch, worm
grade 11: white rat or pig...i had the rat.
OAC bio (grade 13): rabbit (i took it in summer school so we had to recyle the rabbits used back during the school year...not a pretty site)

note: the gifted get to disect a boiled cat
i remember back in grade 9. my lockers were on the same floor as the science rooms...and that's all you can smell..boiled cats

oh and tripe too....back in grade 11

what's your favourite part?
i have a thing for skining..as in separateing the skin from the muscles...

i guess ...i dont know i always have a thing for eating things in layers...picking it apart..one layer at the time

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DoNotTrip [/i]
[B]until you have seen a nun who decided it was time to end it by hanging herself [/B][/QUOTE]

That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I'm getting a seriously scary mental picture. And I don't like it.

various sheeps organs, but the most memorable was a bulls' eye. those things squirt everywhere.

also, my old bio teacher bought in a lambs heart and lungs, and put a tube down the oesohphagus (i think? ahh i dunno, and i have my biology exam on monday!) and breathed into it so they whole thing just inflated and ewwwwww.

one of the more disturbing images in the memory de Ruby

We did a bull's eye. I think my classmates thought I took the scalpel a LITTLE too willingly. I once dissected a skink but that was an unsupervised thing in my backyard *sigh* mispent youth...

i also was a biology major (pre-vet. med.) for 3 years of my college tour. and working at an animal hospital has it's perks. i enjoyed doing them all. but still, nothing can top DoNotTrip.
frog
fetal pig
earthworm
bat
cat
25lb. tumor removed from an akita
various fish (recreation, you might call it filleting them though)
iguana
shrew/mole the teacher wasn't sure which it was.
many aborted cat fetuses
aborted horse fetus

frog
rat
cow's heart
suckling pig
in that order

[QUOTE]That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I'm getting a seriously scary mental picture. And I don't like it.[/QUOTE]

this is why one of my favorites, [URL=http://www.ogrish.com]ogrish.com[/URL] asks, "can you handle life?"

death is the last taboo in our society. no one wants to think about it, even though that it's the one thing we all have in common. it especially surprises me, jane, that given your religious convictions, you would be that squeamish about death. isn't it, as i once heard someone put it, "just a drastic change of address" if you believe in god?

i love the pictures, insom. great site!

I've always been taught that death is the enemy to life. Yeah, if you believe you're saved you're good to go, right, but what if you're not? There's a reason people have a natural disinclination towards death, it being, as you said, 'the last taboo.' It's because the body doesn't really want to be separated from the soul.

And I don't even know what to think about suicide, as the whole topic confuses me, religiously.

death is a part of life. death is necessary to life.

you claim your religion gives you peace, and yet you seem so afraid.

what is there to think about suicide? it happens.

this is another reason why i am an atheist. what's the point about speculating whether someone else is in hell or not after they're dead? we all get there one way or another. so why even waste our time thinking about whether or not someone "sinned" by committing suicide?

ill rich and insom are the same goddamned person!

What else do I have to do? I am an obsessive worrier.

Religion gives me peace for myself and for my own well-being. It doesn't make it any easier with regards to other people and the lifestyles they choose. But that is supposed to be part of the Christian cross to bear, so to speak, is it not? Christians are supposed to go out and evangelize to the world, and while I am personally not comfortable with doing that myself, it shows that Christianity gives us little peace when it comes to the fate of other people. I could quote verses at you but I don't think you'd care, so I won't.

And just for the record: I personally believe that if God hadn't had a "bigger plan" for me, I would have died a long time ago, either by accident or by suicide, it doesn't really matter which. But instead he said, "Whoa, hey, there are bigger things out there in the world for you than having you sit around in hell for the rest of enternity." Do I believe that people who commit suicide go to hell? I don't know. I don't know a lot of things. You seem to know everything. You tell me.

you wouldn't have been born, jane s., if GOD didn't have plans for you or your children.

I don't know if everyone's life has a plan, you know? And some people's lives seem to have fucked-up plans. I had someone tell me that she thought the purpose of the lives of the 9/11 hijackers was to do just that: become the 9/11 hijackers. But I know that my life has a plan, though I don't know what it really is yet.

[QUOTE]ill rich and insom are the same goddamned person![/QUOTE]

bite your tongue, fram.

[QUOTE]
And just for the record: I personally believe that if God hadn't had a "bigger plan" for me, I would have died a long time ago, either by accident or by suicide, it doesn't really matter which. But instead he said, "Whoa, hey, there are bigger things out there in the world for you than having you sit around in hell for the rest of enternity." Do I believe that people who commit suicide go to hell? I don't know. I don't know a lot of things. You seem to know everything. You tell me.[/QUOTE]

so *I*'m the grandiose one? meanwhile, i don't believe there's an invisible man in the sky who has a plan for my special little life. so if my not having a moral problem and cognitive dissonance over something that happens to a LOT of people makes me grandiose, then we're even.

seriously. i don't mean for this to turn into a mutual flame. we're obviously never going to agree. so never mind.

wait a minute. . . . god is invisible. then who the hell is the sob who's been telling me he's god. i thought those white robes and the long grey hair all made sense. jesus. i've been robbed of my innocence. *wails like a banshee*

jane s., don't let a 22 year old cynic who has questionable personal hygiene habits and was too lazy to hit 3000 posts before me tell you how to think about faith, god and anything holy. it's up to you to decide. go with the gut!

*not holding or biting tongue* i am a pentacost.

I never called you the grandiose one. All I was trying to say was that this is what I believe for me and my life. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm really not trying to tell you anything, because in all the discussions we have had about this, you have always been polite enough to not say, "God does not exist, you insignifacant little child," as a lot of people seem to. And i have a lot of respect for that. Snaps. *snaps*

*heart* ya, framstedt! It was mean but it made me laugh.

it wasn't mean. it was all good spirited fun. *trembling* i hope insom knows that. *prays*

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jane s. [/i]
[B]That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I'm getting a seriously scary mental picture. And I don't like it. [/B][/QUOTE]

You should have heard of all the jokes that we and the investigators were making about it.

No. I probably shouldn't have.

I've only had the joy of disecting a squid, which we later fried up and ate. We kind of did a chick embryo the other day, but there's not too much to disect there. I got to participate a little in the disecting of a human brain. That was pretty sweet.

I did a worm, a frog (its chest cavity was completely chock filled with eggs, which was cool for me and gross-tastic for the girls who were my lab partners) and a fetal pig. I remember they drained out all of its blood and filled the veins and arteries back up with blue and red ink, and how the smell permeated the gloves you were wearing. Not cool for a nail-biter like me.

i remember in 10th grade biology doing the blood test. dave van w. pricks his finger, sees blood and faints. what a pussy.

No kidding. Tell me you beat him up after class.

I most likely would have done that too, shut up.

Wait, so slicing open a frog to see tons of eggs is cool, but pricking your finger and seeing a little bit of blood makes you faint? *beats Jane up after class*

I DON'T DO BLOOD. Like you could beat me up anyway.

Shit, I can smell the fetal pig smell now. *pulls shirt up over nose and smells laundry smell* Okay. I'm okay now.