When
reading the chapters in Washington and the chapter by Roach I was appalled and
a little intrigued. I couldn’t believe that people would look at the dead as so
disposable. If I was cutting apart a person I would be thinking about the
family they had and the family that would come to the grave sites to morns over
an empty casket. The doctors seemed to be much desensitized to the death of
others. In one of the readings it said about doctors playing with the dead,
arranging them or placing them in each other’s bed to for a joke. In another
passage it talked about students and doctors that were studying would take things
from the dead body to show off to others. I believe that playing, joking and
stealing bodies is horrible I wonder if it still goes on today. While reading
these readings I couldn’t help but think of the movie National Lampoon's
Vacation. In NLV death is made fun
of and not respected like it should be. It is also seen in video games today.
How many people have played Black Ops or Grand Theft Auto; where the main
objective of the game is to kill and mane people?
Looking
through today’s historical lenses we see the doctors as desensitized and
horrible people, but maybe because death was so much more a fact of life back
in the 1800’s and even the early 1900’s they were just dealing with death the
only way they knew how. In one of the
reading there was mention of Post- Mortem photography. Now some of our society
would think that it was creepy and disrespectful but during the 17 century it
was big business. Funeral parlors would let the family take pictures of the
dead to remember them by and for most families this is the only picture they
have of them.
Yes
I still believe that the doctors in the readings especial Sims were kind of
serial killerish, Frankenstein, Silence of the Lamb-ask. Maybe to be the only way they could cope back
then was to be totally and utterly desensitized.
-Sarah Fiorella
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