I fail to understand your point that reading a book about an autopsy would be more informative than attending one! all medical students, including dental surgeons in the UK have to attend at least one autopsy as part of their course, after all if we don't know how the body works, how can we be expected to fix it?

The point was well made earlier that autopsy is important.

The idle curiosity of the public, who do not need specialist knowledge, can be well provided by many means other than this public side-show.

Perhaps the police will now charge the public to visit the site of road accidents, to learn anatomy?