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Well I never heard that, but I will say that there is a way to get through it. It's a way for you to understand the human body. These people donated their bodies so that you could save lives. You aren't killing them, and you'll be touching and seeing the same things you'll be touching and seeing in a live person. God if I had to think about being a surgeon, I'd rather operate on a dead body than someone's who's alive. I mean, you're cutting them open, and they are alive. It's all for the greater good so you can save a life. Does that help. Also, just think...it's not like a long time ago when they accidentally killed people trying to cut them open and observe their organs.

They also give you the option between a person and a cat... They're equal in my eyes! Well no but pretty much! I love cats... I just dunno if I could really handle it. My uncle was in school to become a doctor, he was only a few cla__ses away from a degree when they brought in a cadaver and he immediately dropped out and said he couldn't do it anymore. I had a teacher who did the same thing. He described it as "dry turkey meat" and was a little disturbed from just mentioning it.

Honestly if it's your dream, i think you should just bite the bullet and go for it. Yes it may be unplesent at first and you may never like it but you will probably be able to tolerate it after a while. Nursing is a great career move. There is lots of opportunity for growth, nurses are always in high demand, and they tend to get paid pretty well.

Thanks Krissy that's what I was thinking too. I REALLY want to be a nurse and when I found out about this I started crying because I didn't want there to be anything making me question whether or not to go for it. I think I'm just going to grit my teeth and do it. On a cat...haha

I havnt heard of this either. I went to nursing school for 8 months but had to quit when my mom died I t was never mentioned and wasnt in the course work. My best friends mom is an RN and she never worked with cadavers or cats. I sent her a text asking to make sure and she said she didnt.

She texted again and said they used fake cadavars, made of plastic and such. Very realistic, apparently. She said they were given a chance to work with real cadavars if they wanted to and it was recomended but being a medical student they could refuse. She said a few of the residens in her group were a little to into it, lol.

*residents

Well I know it's required where I'm going because I was talking to the career counsellor and she asked me if I'd rather cut up a person or a cat... Then I spoke to someone who is a nurse and she said she had chosen the cat and she said it was really nasty like they bring out garbage bags full of dead cats and pa__s them around. They're all like really sickly cats that were most likely the ones who couldn't get adopted from the pound. I asked why they couldn't just use fake cadavers and she kind of giggled at me like it was a stupid question *shrug*

My friends mom ended up calling me and talking to me about it for almost an hour. I think she thought i wanted the info for myself, lol. She said its your choice, that they cannot force you to do something you're uncomfortable. She also said it depends on the feild of nursing you're going into. Maybe it depends where you go. I was going to nursing school to work in a nursing home and it wasnt a requirement. Though i did see a lot of dead bodies, i didnt have to do anything with them.

I dunno I guess it's different for different colleges. I'm going to Santa Ana community college at the moment but I'm switching to Cal State Fullerton in a couple years. It's understandable why they would want students to work with cadavers but I've only ever seen a dead body at a funeral so I really don't know how I'll react, which is a great majority of my fear. Sorry gucci I must have skipped over your comment-- I'm totally fine with homework. It would be unrealistic for me to expect anything else :) Looking at a bunch of pregnant women's v____as doesn't bother me either haha. I watched a video of a woman giving birth in a s_x ed cla__s once, and when everyone was cringing and turning away I was totally unaffected. I'm sure it's different in person but I don't think it'll bother me too much. Just the dead body thing haha. I'm definitely going to go through with it, but I'd really like to feel more secure so I don't run out of the cla__sroom screaming.

LOL SOOO DIFFERENT ON FILM!! hahaha i thought that too and i must say when i saw my first one i was like... umm whoa, haha i had never actually seen a real v____a! i dont even think i had looked at mine!! and then i was watching them burn of the genital warts and paps and everyone is soooo different its like something new everytime!! dead bodies arent that bad honestly ppl kinna make it a big deal and to me its just another way to learn, i would definatly take the person the organs and insides look AMAZING its soo crazy to be able to cut something and pull it out and its what is in yours too its really really cool when you get ones that have diseases and you pull out a canerous liver, i dont think i would do it any other way cats are smaller so its a lot different and the organs look smaller and if you really want to learn get the human, its not like they feel it and they signed the body over so that people like us can study on real humans and thats what they wanted we should at least fufill thier dying wish! haha and you get soo used to it plus they are dead so thier heart isnt beating and its not like they are warm and blood pumping out so really its kinna more like a lifelike doll that has really really cool parts!

O_O lol gucci that didn't help!! That sounds scary not cool! I'm sure I'll get used to it though, I'll just have to pull through it. I've already signed up for it so there's no turning back now!

I certainly have a pa__sion for helping people. I've explored several different career options but there was nothing I wanted to do more than be a nurse. I didn't expect to have to cut anybody open though! That's a surgeon's job and I'm definitely not applying for it haha

lol its just so when you see blood you arent so freaked out, when i was in the hospital the girl who took austins blood was a student and she pa__sed out LOL he didnt even have that much blood to take out

Hahaha no blood doesn't bother me at all. When I was at the hospital and got an IV, naturally I started bleeding and I looked over at my mom and she was crying! I was like why are you crying?! She looked up and said "They hurt my baby girl!" Talk about overly concerned :P I love my mom haha

i work in pathology so that includes the morgue. gucci i can totally understand your interest. the first time i saw a body, my brain wanted to watch but my stomach said 'oh HELL no b___h' and i had to leave the room to keep from throwing up lol. since then i'm ok with it although sometimes it still catches me off guard. one time i walked in and they had a man on the table, he looked like he was laying out by a pool, loungin...then i saw the table next to him with all his internal organs...i had to leave the room that time too. but if i had seen it on tv i would have been fine. i can understand amanda why it would be hard. even if intellectually it is something you are interested it, it's hard not to face the reality of the fact that we are all just bodies when you see things like that. that being said, preserved cadavers are different. they wont smell awful, you smell formalin, like paint thinner. and they are grayish in color, they don't look real. certainly if you can bring yourself to do it, a human cadaver is the way to go.