Skinless show is a big no-go

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 5/7/06 | JOE SOUCHERAY

[blueminnesota]

I was waiting for someone to post an article about this! Can't wait to see the comments. I'll have to find a picture of the director of this show to post. He looks like the main villain from a horror movie, really scary. I think I'll wait this "attraction" out. The pictures from the advertisements are enought o make me feel ill. Weak stomache.

[ClearCase_guy]

In the Middle Ages, some folks had effigies carved on their tombs of rotting bodies (representating themselves) with maggots consuming their flesh.

The point, at that time, was to say that life in this material world is brief and inconsequential, but eternal life in the next world is far more important.

But I hardly think that is the message in this science exhibit. Perhaps it's a bit more like this: We are flesh and bone. Life is short. Live it up while you can!

[Axeslinger]

There was a show on Discovery or a similar network about Taxidermy. This guy's work was at the end of the show. It was...a little bizarre to say the least. All in all, I think it was done in as tasteful a manner as possible, but it still just seems wrong and a tad too voyeuristic for my tastes.

[Caleb1411]

I think Soucheray's most perceptive observation is this one: "Look, I can't help it and am even getting more comfortable with it, my reservations about such things, I mean. I wouldn't go so far as to say the exhibit is obscene. It is undeniably interesting to wonder how things work. But there seems to be such exclusion of the soul here that we are left in awe of the body and only the body. The underlying lesson, I suppose, is that maybe we will learn something that will help us to live longer, vitality being the national obsession and all."

[newzjunkey]

I had hoped to get to the exhibit in L.A. but wasn't able to make it.

I think it's great.

[blueminnesota]

Gunther Von Hagen

[newzjunkey]

Sounds like someone afraid to look at his own mortality or admire God's handiwork.

[Pessimist]

I saw the show when it came to Cleveland, and I thought it was really interesting.

Besides the biological aspect, you really have to marvel at the technical skill involved in his plastination and disection.

[Flavius Josephus]

I'm just glad it's finally gone out of Houston. I'm sick of people talking about it here.

[brownsfan]

"I saw the show when it came to Cleveland..."

So did I. My wife loved it. I found it to be disturbing.

[synbad600]

I know a guy who said that after he dies, he wants to be a skeleton hanging in a classroom.

[mplsconservative]

Sounds like someone afraid to look at his own mortality or admire God's handiwork.

No. Joe's just sqeamish. He's one of the good guy's in my book. He's quite conservative and has an entertaining show called Garage Logic on the radio here in the Twin Cities.

If you want to check him out you can listen live at http://www.am1500.com/

[mplsconservative]

Oops! Link didn't work.

Here it is: http://www.am1500.com/

[lesser_satan]

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[Renegade]

My wife and I ( both retired Science teachers ) saw the exhibit in Tampa last Fall. We both enjoyed it . You will never look at a human being the same way again . The complexity of the human body systems is really astounding . We both think it is for children fron sixth grade and up !( with a pre lesson BEFORE taking them to the museum ).
Be sure to read the commments booklets at the end of the exhibit!!

[dangus]

Invented by a German doctor... hmmm... yeah, that's about right.

[dangus]

Sweet lord, he looks like a stereotype! Can't you just picture him clawing through a box full of sand, wondering what happened to the Covenant? Or hovering around Dark City, looking for who isn't asleep?

No, Mr. Von Hagen, I don't want to pet your "Minkeh."

[Cyber Liberty]

In other words, the doc figured out a way to preserve cadavers in plastic, like those plastic models you sometimes see on the reception desk at the doctor's office, only these were real people.

Good Lord! The sculptures are real cadavers?

[stylecouncilor]

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