[FYREDEUS]

I've seen these...whatever else one might think about them they are amazingly educational.

[DB]

Call me old fashioned but I think it is sick.

[Brad from Tennessee]

["My aim is to illuminate and educate through the beautiful arrangement" of bodies.]

Anyone talented enough to create these "exhibits" out of human flesh should be talented enough achieve the same effect with plastic or some artificial medium. Maybe I'm just squeamish but I think this guy is a ghoul.

[Jotmo]

while in another, a man has been peeled down to his musculature, and he carries his skin on his arm like an old raincoat

This statement here basically destroys the "It's for educational purposes" BS.

This is a twisted form of "artistic expression" for this freak.

[Darth Republican]

Just one word, Ben....

[ALASKA]

I saw this in Chicago and it was incredible. Our bodies are just vehicles. To me, it was simply a fascinating car show. The educational factor was phenominal. Everything was done with respect and reverance..........nothing ghoulish or tawdry about it........

[aroostook war]

Also featured in a scene from "Casino Royale."

[Prospero]

This "art form" is derivative, arising from the work of a French madman, or one who might rightly have been called mad, late in 18th or early in the 19th century.

Nothing new or original about it, and one can hardly call it art, it is embalming, and that debate is at least 200 years old, also.

Some more resourceful Freeper will remember and name and link to the work of the person I'm speaking of.

[wideminded]

One of these shows is ending soon near here so I'm probably going to go see it tomorrow.

[Unmarked Package]

I happened to be at the Body Worlds exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science when school children were touring the exhibit. I was surprised and relieved at their reaction to the exhibit; one of fascination, awe, and amusement and nothing resembling fear or revulsion.

The adult patrons were having a bit more difficult time, maybe because they were imagining with if it were their family members or themselves on display. The children were more detached and objective, as if viewing a Disney Animatronix display.

I knew I would react favorably to the exhibit. The study of human anatomy and physiology is a particular interest of mine. I took Pre-Med courses as electives in college, some involving dissection of human cadavers, totally unrelated to my major in Engineering simply to satisfy my own curiosity.

I understand this is not everyone’s cup of tea and some will find it ghoulish, but the human body is such a marvelous creation. An exhibit like Body Worlds can change the minds of many in their estimation of the value of human life.

[Krankor]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052655/plotsummary

[raybbr]

ping

[ShadowDancer]

I would go to see this in a minute.

[pa_dweller]

FWIW, the 'plasticization' process is outlined in Stiff.

Lots of other 'uses' for the deceased too.

[pennboricua]

We are as near to the end of times as we could possibly be, we have no respect for the dead nor those about to be born no matter if they are healthy or not,
Newborn are dumped into garbage, our elder are kept in closets
to collect their pension, our daughters are turning into prostitutes and featured on girls gone wild and no one bats an eye, man have sex with one another and both homosexual and lesbians lifestyle are commonplace,
Man I am ready for God to tear down this creation and start anew.

[WorkingClassFilth]

BTTT.

[bvw]

Abuse of corpse. The same thing -- education-wise -- can be done with plastic models, rather than the actual once-living person.

But plastic models do not fulfill the voyeuristic impulse many here have already shown.

[Cicero]

I hate to say it, but I think this "Catholic" bioethics group is, whatever its protestations, NOT CATHOLIC.

Respect for the person has always involved respect for the body. Consent of the individual concerned or of his family simply isn't sufficient to make this right.

If a person or a family is too stupid or out of touch to understand that, it still doesn't make it right. You'd might as well say that assisted suicide is fine, as long as you have proper consent. Well, it isn't fine; and neither is this.

[Ferndina]

I was in Orlando Florida this week, Dec. 5th thru the 9th, and I saw a brochure stating the exhibit was in Orlando.