I see your point, cataholic. And I know it is extremely difficult for people who love cats. We didn't do cats in high school - we did frogs. In regular college biology we dissected pigs, and of course in human biology we dissected humans.

I have found the information I learned in those experiences to be extremely valuable. In fact, the information I learned through dissection has actually saved human lives. But I'm an ICU nurse. Not everybody is going into fields where this will be useful to them, and those people shouldn't be subjected to the emotional trauma.

I think I should delete my original, insensitive post. Is that Kosher, or are we not supposed to delete posts?