Henrik Kragh I'm going to have to say that we'll just have to disagree. This is NOT an 'old' cadaver, it has NOT been laying around the mortuary or dissection room for any period of time, nor WILL it be preserved in order to keep it around for any further period of time after these instructional videos were made all on the same day!! Where on earth do you get such ideas from??? Unless body parts are basically tanned, similarly to way leather is, then even after being embalmed a body will only remain viewable (under refrigeration at a very low temperature!) for about TEN DAYS, OPTIMAL! Thereafter the body will begin to decompose, even under refrigeration....So please explain how 'old' you think this cadaver is, and how you propose the preservation might be done? Because to suggest that this cadaver is 'old' is just ridiculous - it is in as pristine and freshly presented condition as you will ever see, without chemical additions or fluids! This pathologist gets upset and loses his microphone at the presence of a tiny bit of naturally occurring fluid in the rectal end of the body cavity!! The color of the organs and flesh are perfectly normal for a very recently deceased cadaver .. It no longer has the functionality of circulating blood, combined with the fact that the BOWEL (not 'guts'!) and the stomach have indeed been thoroughly washed out of all contents - so all of the organs and tissue are quite naturally bloodless and washed-out in appearance .. you sound like you expected it to be more pink and healthy looking, but there's no blood flow to cause it to be pink .. This is as fresh and as natural as a cadaver can possibly be, untainted by ANY preservatives whatsoever. Likewise, the yellowish look of the fatty areas are, likewise, perfectly normal for a VERY recently deceased cadaver. You said that I speak to you "like you are stupid or something", but after your statements I do have to ask where your perceptions about 'old' cadavers come from because it's very obvious that you have preconceived ideas about what embalming is, and how decomposition occurs (or you think it doesn't after the embalming process?), as well as what you think the technical functions of autopsy are??? So let's start with that .. You seem to think that an autopsy has been performed .. but the the only organs removed so far are the brain and the heart, both of which are still present (although we are not shown the brain, but we're told at the outset that it's only just been removed). And that shows that you don't know or understand what an autopsy actually IS. (But that doesn't mean I am saying you are stupid, just that you don't know!) Technically, in a full autopsy ALL of the organs (the brain, the heart AND all of its arteries, the liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, gall bladder, and everything else I have missed including the stomach AND the bowel (NOTE:the bowel is not called 'guts') - all of it is removed and the weight of each organ is recorded. Then it is dissected piece by piece ---- but every one of these organs are present and accounted for in this cadaver - and clearly no autopsy has yet been performed ... and so for you to say that this cadaver has been autopsied shows that you've never seen an autopsy nor do you know what autopsy actually is. THIS cadaver is undergoing A DISSECTION for the purpose of the presentation of several medically educational demonstrations - and it has clearly NOT been autopsied. (I hope you don't think like someone else on this or another nearby thread who has witnessed another demonstration using this same cadaver and which was also performed by the same Pathologist - and because these 2 videos were published SEVERAL MONTHS APART the poor fellow thinks that the body must have been preserved in the fridge for months also, LOL ... He thinks that they must have only just dragged it out of the freezer to make another video with it .. LOL ... !!!) This cadaver WAS used for several educational videos (and he did say that in the next video all of the stomach and most of the bowel would be removed for a clearer view), but I assure you that ALL of the videos were performed on the same day and in an order that was progressively destructive to the cadaver!! And I don't doubt that as various organs are removed they will go to certain medical students to be studied and dissected. But it will be replaced in a timely manner prior to being cremated and the remains returned to the family. Secondly, you state that this cadaver has been embalmed .. but where do you see ANY evidence of that??? (You say that it has caused discoloration, but what you see here is just a perfectly normal looking FRESH cadaver). There is absolutely nothing shown here to suggest that she has undergone any form of embalming whatsoever, and again, your statement that this cadaver has been embalmed tells me that you don't understand WHAT embalming actually IS or how it is carried out. (And again, by explaining it, am NOT treating you "like you are stupid or something" - I'm merely pointing out that you clearly don't know what it is). Where do you think they have put this embalming fluid?? Do you think it is painted onto the organs or something? Good God - the Pathologist went nuts and lost his microphone when he discovered a tiny bit of natural body fluid right down in the inner sphyncter region of the body cavity!! This cadaver us so devoid of ANY fluids that the suggestion of putting fluid of any kind anywhere near it is absurd!! For starters, embalming is carried out by forcing the embalming fluid into the body's arteries and veins under fairly high pressure using an embalming machine. A large artery in the neck, usually the carotid for men, is used to force the embalming fluid into the body while it forces the blood out - and down the drain. Note that the femoral artery is easier to deliver the fluid for embalming women and most children. As the process becomes close to completion the pressure must be lowered to avoid what's called purging - the fluid can burst through the mouth, nose and eyes, and we don't want that! And for the last few minutes the fluid being delivered to thoses arteries is reversed to ensure that the fluid reaches the opposite direction, being the lower leg when the femoral artery is used, and the left side of the head when the carotid is used. *Note that during an autopsy or dissection such as this, these veins are tied off if embalming is to going to take place at all - and the views of this cadaver's neck, heart, chest and abdominal cavities etc etc clearly show that none of the necessary veins and arteries which would normally carry formaldehyde etc around the body for embalming have been tied off ANYWHERE, particularly not at crucial points. (Incidentally, about 2 gallons of a mixture of formaldehyde and glycerine along with some other nasty chemicals is required to embalm an adult - depending on the size of the person being embalmed .. it would leak everywhere!!) Sometimes after an autopsy it can be difficult for the embalmer to get the fluid to flow properly throughout the body so he/she must watch carefully to see where the fluid is actually going to, and ensure that it's not building up in any particular veins. When that happens they need to either unblock the veins (sometimes massaging works .. as rigor mortis can block the fluid), or otherwise they'll use a large needle and syringe filled with fluid to inject blocked areas manually. 20 - 40 minutes later when almost all of the fluid used up, the machine is switched off and the embalmer turns to the chest, and then stomach cavities and, using a very sharp instrument called a 'trocar' they must puncture these two cavities manually .. and then they inject both cavities with all of the remaining embalming fluid to ensure that the organs are also 'embalmed', regardless of whether no autopsy took place and these organs remained whole, or not - as was the final process for this particular cadaver .... At the end of this dissection the body is stitched up, most often with ALL of the organs respectfully returned to the cavities from which they originally came. Last of all the body is sent to the funeral home just like every other body, only necessity dictates that a closed casket burial or cremation takes place. The funeral home ensures that such bodies are wrapped with extra plastic to prevent leakage, after which it is most likely to be cremated, but that's not a hard rule either. So it will be impossible to embalm this cadaver either before or after dissection.. This notion of yours that 'they' keep cadavers laying around in fridges for long periods of time - it's a huge misconception that's based on ignorance and preconceptions. And Thirdly, you don't seem to understand that the embalming process along with very cold refrigeration is only a very temporary solution to delay the inevitable .. decomposition!! At the outset I said that basically only tanning a body could preserve it for longer than 10 days. But again, you seem to think that this cadaver will be kept somewhere without decomposing for a long period of time, and that it already is 'old'. I understand that you are the tyoe of person who doesn't like hearing that you're wrong about anything .. even when you've been given every fine detail as to why you're so misled. It's a good thing that I can type almost as fast as I can think .. otherwise I wouldn't have wasted 12.5 minutes of my time on writing this. We will just have to disagree. But sometimes people like yourself have preconceived ideas, and no amount of factual information will change that .. they just can't be told anything - and you strike me as being one of those people.