It;s my job, and I'm sucking it up, but DAMN!

[Book Lover]

Cadaver photos are gross!!

on edit: I have to evaluate which of this set of two photos are better. None are better! They are cut-up dead people! I am honestly grateful that people donate their bodies to science for this purpose, and I have to get over myself, but ... ugh!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. I guess they would be.

:pals:
Hope you were able to figure it out without resorting to Pepto Bismol.

[Book Lover]

7. Thank you!

At least I'm not the only one: even my authors (doctors!) say something about the nature of cadaver photos...

[trof]

2. Whew. Now THAT'S a sucky job.

Stiff upper & all that.

[Book Lover]

12. Thank you for your support

I keep telling myself that it's all for a greater good: educating doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. That helps.

[Cobalt-60]

3. Are they for academic purposes?

Then they are needed.
Its got to be a stomach turner, but hang in there.

[Book Lover]

8. You can't get any more academic than this

I am the editor for college anatomy and physiology textbooks. I am sure I'll become dulled to the impact, someday...

[unpossibles]

10. really? I am a photo editor/project manager for textbooks too

mostly business and art books though. I don't think I could do medical books.

Have fun!

[Book Lover]

14. Yep, been doing this for years

I used to do history books as a production editor, then moved to a different place and now I'm a project editor. Yes, I abandoned production for editorial. I go to Bookbuilders meetings and they hiss at me :-)

[wildhorses]

4. the one that shows the best of the veins and arteries and organs

ya big sissy:P

[Book Lover]

11. Dude! These particular images were of a man and a woman

sawn in half to display the reproductive organ system. If finding that revolting makes me a sissy, then I'll wear that sign! :-)

[wildhorses]

15. i know--

i'm weird:blush:

[Roon]

5. My shrink is a MD

and it blows me away that she used to dissect human bodies and all of that...she is such a sweetie!!

[Book Lover]

9. I personally think that doing dissections helps grow compassion

You can't get more real about the human condition than disassembling a human body. Oh gosh, but that does NOT apply to serial killers!!

[Deja Q]

6. Wanna trade jobs? Mine has no future too...

but yours has a job security mine will never will.

And if you're lucky, you'll be working on me someday! :spray:

[Book Lover]

13. No thanks; I used to work IT

I prefer them already dead! :rofl:

[trof]

16. When I was a cub reporter...

It was another life, a long, long time ago.
Anyway...
I was sent to one of our news photographers cubbyhole to retrieve a photo that was going to run the next day.

While I was going through the file folder where it was supposed to be I came across an 8X10 glossy of...geez...what's this?
Looks like a guy, but...there's part missing...I can see the back of his head, but...
HOLY SHIT! It's a guy's head with the top of the skull sheared off. I'm looking at his damned BRAINS.

Turns out the photog's secret little passion was collecting photos of semi dismembered crash victims.

whew

[Book Lover]

17. Yow!

Curiosity is one thing; morbid fascination another; squirreling away dismemberment photos goes way someplace else, I think...

[trof]

18. The guy had 4 antennas on his car.

ALL the police and fire bands.
As soon as something grisly happened, he was THERE!
Yeah, weird.