How Does It Feel to Cut Into a Human Brain?
As anatomical preparator at Charité hospital, Navena Widulin has spent 30 years cutting up cadavers — and she loves her job.
"A fresh human brain can be cut into only 10 slices," Navena Widulin explains. "But if you preserve it, it's much easier. Then you can make 20."
For over three decades, Widulin has been preparing and preserving cadavers at Charité research hospital – and she doesn't understand why anyone would doubt that she enjoys it. "They think I've got to be morbid, live in a house with black walls and skulls everywhere, but why? I take a lot of pleasure in what I do."