Lesson from body dissection documentary

I've only ever seen one dead body - it was a baby, and it happened 16 years ago. Last night I watched an excellent NZ TV documentary that showed medical students dissecting dead bodies. It was an hour long, shot in close-up and was, to be frank, shocking. I felt nauseous.

But what made it profound was that three of the body donors had been interviewed about their body donation. Those interviews were interspersed amongst the dissection footage, which was filmed over two years. At the end, the students watched the donor interviews.

It was remarkable. Where the students had been calm and detached during dissection, they became extremely emotional after the donor interviews, connecting a live person to their dissected body. I saw that the physical body is just 'meat'. Your soul is the real you.