In order to understand the human body, to know ourselves, we need corpses. But what corpses? And those corpses, or rather bodies, bodies which were once animated, i.e. endowed with a soul and an identity, what were they called, who were they? How did they end up in the hands of anatomists, doctors and various operators? We would like to grant those victims sacrificed on the altar of science a human dignity; let us call them by name, give them a history, say a prayer for them.