Now that you’ve quit smoking for a few months, you are probably feeling really good right now. I know that my first 3 months was not difficult emotionally, but physically as I expected myself to become a superman. Take it a bit easy, as your body will undergo some changes for a while (all the better) and you will eventually begin the life you were intended to have: smoke free.

This all brings me to my next point which was a person who remarked today that medical cadavers come from people who have no family. I’ve never personally heard of such a thing, so if you have any evidence otherwise please leave a comment.

I decided to just type in medical cadavers into Google, fully expecting an application form to become one. I then clicked on the first link for medical cadavers I could find (here). For the uninitiated, a medical cadaver is someone who has given their body to science so that people can learn. I soon learned that the students would find out what the people died of, not their names, but what caused their death. Some students I found had no problem figuring it out.

Read the article if you wish, but here is an excerpt that caught my eye:

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Monroe-Wise had even taken to calling her cadaver, “Bob.” “I can sense that I’m developing a sort of affection for my cadaver, which is strange,” she said. “But maybe our cadaver is a little bit unusual. We already know so much about him.” In just three days of dissecting, “Bob” had yielded evidence of emphysema, triple bypass surgery and a pacemaker. “Obviously it’s too late, (but) I want to say to him, ‘Bob, what are you doing? Quit smoking. You’re gonna kill yourself.’”

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Now you have it, it’s official. Keep smoking and you might just end up a medical cadaver. It has nothing to do with if you have family. I would assume this guy figured he’d help a few dozen people learn not to smoke… is it any wonder why most doctors I see are not in the smoking area? (I am not under the impression nurses do this course in medical school, only doctors.)

Keep in mind, this guy had a pacemaker and several other diseases that are attributed to smoking. He may have been hit with a bus, but the students who dissected him could tell the damage done.