late October to early February The moment when students meet the body to be dissected is full of tension. Each body on the table is a person, who has lived a life of several decades, and is lying there because he or she wanted to. Everybody in the dissection course silently prays for the souls of body donors However, once the covering cloth is removed, and a knife cuts the skin to reveal the interior of the body, During the 4 months that follow, students are busy identifying and removing each and every structure constituting the human body—muscles, blood vessels, nerves, thoracic and abdominal organs, etc.