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With humor, often, even black, without prof. DHPauža we are in his office full of elements of interwar modernism. He has reigned there since 2004. As befits a scientist, the professor’s desk is sunk in a pile of documents and books.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / Professor Dainius Harold Pauža in his office
Behind the rear is a large cabinet that immediately catches your eye, and on the wall is a portrait of the founder of the Institute of Anatomy, the creator of Lithuanian anatomy and anthropology, Jurgis Žilinskas. The name of this personality was heard more than once during the conversation and the tour of the building. Everything that makes us proud in this institution began with the thoughts, works and discoveries of J.Žilinskas. Under the painting of the creator of the anatomy there is an unusual detail of the interior, about which DHPauža begins to tell a story.
“See that biological group shit? This work is over 100 years old. Buy at auction. It used to be a living organism and now lo and behold, it stands for 100 years. The same idea, preserving something for future generations, cannot fail to impress ”, presented the director of the Institute of Anatomy.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15 min photo / LSMU Institute of Anatomy, office director
100 years ago, a house on Kaunas A.Mickevičiaus Street was assigned to the Institute of Anatomy. A year later, another house called “Anatomical” appeared in the courtyard. Both buildings housed a preparation room (projector), auditorium, anatomy museum, morgue, laboratory, library, chemical store. The large and complex anatomy farm was asphyxiated in small and inadequate premises, but everything changed with the inauguration of the new building of the Faculty of Medicine in 1933, whose interwar spirit still needs to be nurtured today.
“Anai’s time counted everything before and after the war, now we count before the crown and after. Celebrating the centenary of anatomy, we raised the glasses of Kiselya, because the organism itself has established itself ”, DHPauža ingeniously responded to the mood of the director of the Institute of Anatomy.
He recalled that in the past the attitude towards corpses was completely different: if nobody took it, did not demand it, the body would be used for public purposes. Even a dead person has rights at this time, according to the professor: without his consent prior to death, the body will not end up in the hands of future doctors.
“We just don’t call them bodies, we call them corpses. When the remains of people arrive, so do the social and funeral benefits. Who wants to lose it? Better to bury the unknown in the grave. But in the end we find a compromise with the commercial representatives, that’s why they don’t lose anything – by arrival, removal, incineration they get the same. By law, we have many responsibilities and zero rights over the corpses. The only one where we can use the remains for scientific purposes. So we only have the remains of people who agreed to sacrifice before dying. The first volunteers “came” to us in 2006, 2007, “said DHPauža, who organized a tour of the institute’s embalming facilities, interwar auditoriums, a chapel, science laboratories and spoke about the unusual” heating “of the facilities. ventilating the only powerful electron microscope in Lithuania.
Did you know that after embalming, the remains become almost twice as heavy?
– Professor, how do people see such an opportunity? How many consents do you get per year to donate your remains to medical science after your death?
– We receive around 50 applications each year. We cannot say that we feel a deficit of the bodies themselves. It happens that one student “scratches”, for example, in the middle ear, and another has nothing left to do. If students, residents are not enough, we matter. There are companies in the world, mostly American, that do all this legally: import corpses. Is importing free? It costs the work of the people who do it. For example, you need unfixed and unbleached tissues, which are stored in the cold. How much investment is needed? I tried to say that we cannot do that because the origin of the imported ‘products’ is not clear, but if everything is done legally there, there is no such sanctity left.
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