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Patrons examine "Ballet Dancer," one of the figures in a Body Worlds exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles in 2005. (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)

This figure called "The Teacher" was part of a controversial exhibition of human bodies preserved by the process called plastination, which was presented by Body Worlds at the California Science Center. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Vanessa Van Vleck of East Sacramento admires a display of the human circulatory system at a Sacramento exhibition presented by Premier Exhibitions Inc. Arnie Geller, the chairman of the Atlanta-based show producer, says he is confident he can convince the Legislature that the identities of the bodies in his shows are known to Chinese authorities. (Sacramento Bee)

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[gusopol3]

school took kids to see this ( tenth grade). We were only parents in class of 60 who refused premission. Several students later expressed regret at having gone.

[Schnucki]

I’m wondering if the conservative wing of the republican party is on display there.

[RightWhale]

How did they get rid of everything but the blood vessels?

[teacherwoes]

"They're elderly Chinese men who donated their bodies,"

Did they have lead in them?

[Krankor]

I signed a "I Consent to have my Body Gawked At" release when I got my driver's license.

[jalisco555]

I went to a similar exhibit in Chicago, which was originally produced in Germany. It was fascinating, respectful and highly educational. It wasn’t upsetting to the many people there, including many kids.

[swatbuznik]

Are they upset with “The Teacher” one because it only has half of a brain? LOL!

Actually, I’m rather morbid, and am fascinated by this, but I know it’s not right.

[gaijin]

I heard that the first pioneering show featured bodies that in fact had been gotten from executed Chinese political prisoners.

[modican]

Body Worlds exhibition

Have seen it, excellent exhibition, always long waiting lines, I hear most visited Museum Tour ever, world wide. they have more donated bodies then they can handle.
If you are afraid of the Reality of your own inner Body and human life/function itself, don't go there.

[wideminded]

I went to one of these shows. The one I saw was not “Body Worlds”, but was called “BODIES .. The Exhibition”. It was more tasteful than is characterized by some of the pictures you show. It was well organized and gave me a greater appreciation of the structure and complexity of the human body than could ever be obtained from diagrams or models. I would go back and I would recommend it to everyone except younger children. I think a lot of the critics would be silenced if they actually attended the show that I saw.

[sockmonkey]

They’re having an exhibit of this type in San Antonio at the Witte Museum. From what I could tell about the bodies they showed on the 10pm news, they all appeared to be young asian men.

Looking at the teeth in your one pic, I would say that was no old geezer.

[Waco]

They have voted in every election for 80 years. /sarcm

[Jane Austen]

Sick. I would never let my kids go there.

[Radix]

I do not know if this is the same show that I saw at the Museum of Science in Boston a couple of years ago.

I can say however that that Boston show was one of the most macabre things that I have ever set my own eyes on.

I did not understand the appeal of it at all.

[Dagnabitt]

Patrons found one exhibit, the "Maverick Cadaver", particularly unsettling.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is a German documentary, called “The Way to Eden” (Der Web nach Eden)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0114904/

“People die, every day, every minute, every second. People also die in movies, sometimes the body-count is one of the greatest assets of a movie. But what happens after we die? Here movies usually turn to the living.

They mourn, they are shocked, they live on. This documentary is about the dead and about what happens to them after they die. Not in a metaphysical sense. No, it follows those, who handle the corpses, those, who ‘post-process’ them.

Here, the topic of modern medicine enters the stage. Autopsy may not be the standard procedure, but it is a common phenomenon not only in the case of ‘suspicious’ deaths - as most movies want make us believe. There is another motive for autopsy: Order, science, and - in the case of the expert introduced in this documentary: mere craftsmanship.

And here, besides the strong pictures of routines which are about taking apart corpses - the extraordinary quality of this movie lies: Respect for the death, respect for humanity can also express itself through bureaucratic regulations, which involve systematic mangling of bodies with knifes and scalpels. There is no black-and-white dualism between following of technical rules and the mystery of death. The truth is somewhere in-between or beyond.”

[wintertime]

schoolchildren,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

School children? Parents consented to this?

[Habibi]

This exhibit was great. We even took our 7 and 9 year old and they loved it (they’ve been at “Death’s Door” at least a few times and aren’t at all squeamish about how the body works).

It’s a good exhibit. I don’t really get the protestation. It seems there’s a lot of objections that have more to do with other agendas, than about the show ...... but then we just went and enjoyed it so I guess we’re opinionated as well. ;-)

[Lijahsbubbe]

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