A piece like Autopsy in Workshop

When reading "Autopsy", I read it from a writer's lens-what would it be like to write this myself? I pictured myself reading it aloud in workshop-what would people think of me? Would they think I was deranged? 

The thing that interested me the most about "Autopsy" was that I knew if I'd have presented it in any of the workshops I'd taken so far, people would think there was something wrong. Furthermore, all of my workshops had been creative writing-strictly fiction, so how would the people initially reading this non fiction piece feel about it?Why does a piece being already published make the topic more acceptable?  Is it because in order to be published and for your teacher to ask you to read it it can't possibly be that weird? Is it because you are removed enough from the author, like American's are from the meat they eat, that it no longer bothers you?

I think the last one is most accurate. As soon as you put a name and face to the person who notices dead bodies in such detail and is fascinated yet withdrawn from seeing them, it becomes weird. You start wondering what other weird things this person does in their spare time. What else could inspire them to write? No one wants to be close with someone who writes descriptive pieces about dead bodies.