removing a brain

I recently completed my SDP, my project was to dissect a particular part of the body. On one of the days, a couple of the lecturers decided they wanted to remove the brain from the cadaver I was working on to use in neuroanatomy labs. I remember back to the first day I ever met a cadaver about 6 yrs back now. I was so grossed out, scared to touch them, thought about it afterwards, didn’t like eating roast beef etc. Over the year I guess I became pretty desensitized to it all. Anyways I don’t know if anyone has ideas on how to remove a brain from a person, but basically you saw off the top of the skull and pull out the brain with your hand.
On this day there were 4 of us watching, plus one person doing the actual removal of the brain. It was a pretty gruesome thing to see. At the time I felt not too bad, I was actually quite excited, it isn’t something I get to see every day, and probably something I will never see again. I guess staying detached help me witness this without too many issues. If I let myself to think about the fact this was an actual person and all these sorts of thoughts, I may have felt quite sick or even scared :P.
I feel really honoured to have had this experience. In 1st yr they tell us about how these people donated their bodies, for us to learn etc, and for us to respect and appreciate them and all of these sorts of things. I can now honestly say something which I could not before, that I really appreciate what these people have done for us. They donated their body, so people like me can advance our knowledge in anatomy and thus improve as health professions. I really appreciate these people a lot.
Secondly I look at the human body in such a different light now. I guess I now just have what I consider a really great thought process about the human body, and how it all works. It’s really hard to put into words, until you experience it for yourself. I don’t know why but I really think this will help me to treat patients more effectively in the future. I feel I can see the “big picture” and that everything in the human body is related to everything else in the body. I’m really happy to think like this, and again I am very grateful for the experiences I have had in 4th yr, and they are making me grow as a physio and a person very rapidly and drastically.