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......
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
When the “human” is considered merely an animal species evolved to a higher order, you can do anything you want to their bodies. The skin was peeled. Lamp shades, anyone?
Try this version...
When the “human” is considered merely property of the state you can do anything you want to their bodies. The skin was peeled. Lamp shades, anyone?
It would be as if we put our executed prisoners on display, skin them and send them for show all over the world.
Look mommy, there’s Tookie! And they rigged his arm with motors so he’s waving his book!
You know, just to freak out the Hollywierd crowd...
It sure would keep the illegals from coming over if this were a real threat...
LOL! Understatement of the day!
Very educational
So is “Vivisection.”
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It is so offensive to the sense of Charity for our followman!
Does anyone remember what happen to our POW’s after the war when they never came home that there were rumors of doing experince on the bodies of those who were left behind in Cambodia etc?
A citizen of Cambodia is usually identified as “Cambodian” or “Khmer,” the latter of which strictly refers to ethnic Khmers. Most Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists of Khmer extraction, but the country also has a substantial number of predominantly Muslim Cham, as well as ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese and small animist hill tribes.
It was never mention that predominantly Muslim also resided there!
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