Quidne mortui medico-legales docent?

Nowadays the anatomic dissection is scientifically in decline. Neverthless in some Countries this procedure is undergoing a rebirth as a teaching tool for the School of Medecine. The mail interes is moving from simple learning of human anatomy to deontology and ethic training. Through this experience, medical students and future doctors should develop a deep respect with cadavers and then with patients. The tight relation between cadavers and end-users should be more considered then in the past. Authors provide a legislative and comparative analysis of this topic with a conclusive synthesis of their experience in the Institute of Legal Medecine in Milan.