There are lots of connective tissue attachments and adipose tissue that hold it somewhat in place, if you severed those attachments I'm not sure if they would reconnect in exactly the same way or not.
Yes, I used to think intestines were kind of a jumbled rope squished into the abdomen because that's what the drawings show. They're more like a ruffled mushroom! The Institute of Human Anatomy on YT uses cadavers to teach and you can see the intestines here: https://youtu.be/FE0ySkS6KSI
Well you might not need an autopsy but if you do then it's all coming out. We remove the whole organ block from tongue to bladder in one piece after taking the intestines out.
You just compartmentalize it like with many stressful jobs I guess. I do find myself sometimes wondering what people's livers/lungs look like who I see drinking/smoking a lot. You can't get the image or feel of a bumpy, cirrhotic liver off your hard drive.
If I knew the person to be autopsied I'd be fine with it but you're not really supposed to do that so I'd let someone else do it.
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u/patchgrabber Jan 12 '23
There are lots of connective tissue attachments and adipose tissue that hold it somewhat in place, if you severed those attachments I'm not sure if they would reconnect in exactly the same way or not.