Carrying squicky things in buckets

When I'm volunteering at the hospital, I get many, many calls to transport specimens to the lab. Usually it is just blood in tubes, and occasionally a urine.

But this weekend, there were two things that I admit made my stomach turn just a tad:
a lumpy looking greenish stool sample (meconium maybe? it came from labor and delivery), and a big, round clear bucket with a placenta inside.

I'm not disgusted by placentas, per se, it's just that when I think of them, I think of what I've read / heard about, that some cultures *eat* the placenta for nutrition and or spiritual reasons. Yucka.

To each his own.