Medical students from Parakou (Benin) and West-African traditional beliefs on death and cadavers

All physicians will be confronted one day to the death of one of their patients, but what is the position of traditional populations subject to modern medicine and ethic principles?1 Little is known about cultural beliefs related to death in Black Africa, and medical students attitudes towards working with human cadavers, for example at the occasion of anatomy courses or post-mortem examinations (dissections).