Posted on 06/24/2007 7:07:29 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
The bodies are coming, and with them some questions that will not go away. "Bodies ... The Exhibition,' featuring 15 full-body human corpses from China that have been preserved by a process called "plastination," is scheduled to open at The Carnegie Science Center in October for a seven-month run.
The cadavers are peeled of their skin and arranged in poses -- kicking a soccer ball, setting up a tennis serve -- alongside 200 other body parts and specimens, including embryos and fetuses from 9 to 32 weeks gestation, all plasticized.
It is one of three major traveling exhibits that have been drawing huge crowds around the world. But along with the exhibits' popularity have come ethical and religious concerns.
None of the people who once inhabited the bodies in Bodies gave their consent to be used this way, and that has made some folks profoundly uneasy. Their doubts are compounded by China's record of human rights abuses, including the harvesting of transplant organs from executed prisoners.
One opponent is Elaine Catz, an 11-year employee of the science center who resigned over "Bodies'' last week.
"We don't know how these people died or why they died, and I don't think Premier knows, either," she said, referring to the company, Premier Exhibitions of Atlanta, that is presenting the show. "Before we put our stamp of approval on it, there should be a high burden of proof on Premier.''
Premier says the corpses were unidentified or unclaimed, that every attempt was made to locate relatives before the bodies were turned over to police and then, through proper legal channels, to Premier's Chinese partners at Dalian Medical University's dissection and plastination operation......
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I think its one thing for a person who has a legitimate interest in or need to know more about the subject to see a human body dissected, but its quite another to put human bodies on display as a show.
Thank you. This is where I am coming from. But there is something more.
It would be as if we put our executed prisoners on display, skin them and send them for show all over the world.
If these were folks who had given their permission for the display of their bodies that is one thing, but it appears this may not be the case.
This is beyond unconscionable. It is beyond words.
Is there any speck of morality left in our country?
We are attending Body Worlds Exhibit by the Doc who invented the are of plastination.
Tommarrow we travel to Portland Oregon to see it at OMSI.
Folks say it is an excellant exhibit.
Didn’t know they that an Asian version.
I’ve taken anatomy classes, although we only used animal subjects. I find the images in this thread beyond grotesque. Who were these people? Did they commit a “crime”? I do not believe for a minute they died of natural causes.
Is there anyone left who mourns these souls? Or were they also eliminated as a matter of course?
Please, take a moment and pray for them.
I finding it amazing that when Gunther von Hagens does this same thing it is hailed as wonderful but then the Chinese do the same thing they are cursed. The world seems to be suffering selective outrage again.
I’d say that merely going to see this exhibit, is tantamount to committing a sin. The “its educational argument shouldn’t fly.” We could view pornography as “educational” from a certain point of view. Learning about life does not mean you need to “experience” everything. These people are entitled to a decent burial and rest, as every human being is.
I have a great idea.
We terminate (kill) those illegal aliens who make a run for it into our country. And when we do, we use plastination and have a show around the world depicting them in different posses as they are jumping token fences, running like hell into our country, packet 10 dozen into a van, and more.
Now this is a possibility.
Anybody disgusted with that?
“Anybody disgusted with that?”
A clarification
Anybody who is not disgusted with this Chinese exhibit is okay if we do the same thing with illegal aliens?
all again:
An afterburner thought:
It sure would keep the illegals from coming over if this were a real threat...
Despite the popular image; military leadership discourages elaborate tattoos for those who may be prone to capture.
Some of our enemies have been known to have odd tastes in “framed-art.”
BTW...while the exhibit was ikn Seattle, someone stole one of the kidneys from one of the cadavers. I believe it was later returned.
What does someone want with a plasticized kidney??
Good for him.
The perfect exhibit for a culture of death.
Bingo.
The same thing goes for the bodies that are dug up by archaeologists. They started this. I don't want someone in the year 3000 digging up my parents' graves and putting their skeletons on display in a museum.
This from a newspaper article when Body Worlds was in Minneapolis:
“While education is the exhibit’s focus, it also aims to get people in touch with their own bodies, Wojda said. Visitors wiggled their own kneecaps while examining a plastinated leg. Teachers pointed out the locations of muscles to elementary students.”
Geez Louise, If I had seen something like these exhibits when I was in elementary school, I’d still be having nightmares. What parents or school would take young children to see this stuff?
Website of the exhibting company: http://www.ourbodytheuniversewithin.com/about.htm
I actually think this is a great idea. A way for them to make amends to society by providing their bodies for education.
Very educational
So is “Vivisection.”
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