That Thing Called Cadaver

I wonder what they looked like 

   when they were still living.

  I wonder how they lived 

 when they were 

still breathing.

      What circumstances have they been through?

     Have they also screamed with joy or cried in woe?

 I wonder if they know what they have become today.

'Coz if they knew about it, I think they'd say,

"Oh, baby, 

I didn't want 

   to turn out this way."

and if they do, oh no! 

only the brave ones can stay!

Lifeless, stiff, and stinky-- they turn others very blue.

But I do believe, they make my dreams come true!

So rejoice while you are still living, and always respect the dead

And don't let the dissection room become your deathbed.

Dissection time!

A brief history of cadavers

The methods of preserving cadavers, and their acquisition, have changed over the last 200 years. Criminals who were executed for their crimes were used as the first cadavers. The demand for cadavers increased when the number of criminals being executed decreased. Since corpses were in such high demand, it became commonplace to steal bodies from graves in order to keep the market supplied.

I know right??