[ViktorRay]

Yes I agree with you. This doesn’t add up to me. Especially this part:

“On the one hand, being in perfect health, unaccustomed to suffering and therefore easily disconcerted by the thought of death, I was horrified.”

When one is a medical student starting anatomy working on cadavers I remember such thoughts being common. But by the time one had gone through years of medical school and then years of residency I would be quite astounded that one would still have such a reaction.

[ec109685]

It seems different if the person is a living cadaver, especially one without outside indication that they are dead.

I could see that affecting someone differently.

[otherme123]

I work near health environment, and what I notice is a heavy selection. If someone doesn't tolerate "living cadavers" they quickly take options: go to the private sector, take a speciality that doesn't deal with such events, or in the worst cases they drop out to something like the pharma industry.

[cjk2]

Yeah in my case electrical engineering :)