From court proceedings...
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for pulse?
A: No
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No
Q: So,...... then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No
Q: How can you be sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar?
Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practising law somewhere.