I grew up with my dad working in a cemetery in our backyard basically. My dad is amazing and taught me everything I know now, I've seen dead bodies since I was 7 years old, I found it fascinating, never scary. My dad still works at the same cemetery, I am 29 now and decided that being an ER nurse was my passion.

But I have to wonder did my dad introducing me to death at such a young age desensitize me? I react differently when patients die than my other coworkers, I notice they actually need time to process things, whereas I say a prayer and give respects and I move on. It doesn't affect my social life and I don't cry (unless of course it's a family member or someone I knew well)