[mountainbunny]

We went when my youngest was a few months old and stood before the pregnant woman who died with a fetus that was, at it’s stage of development, the same age my own child had been about one year before.
She has known she was going to pass away and asked to be plastinated with her baby. I think she was German, not Chinese.
I sat down at the nearest bench and said a prayer for her and her baby and just thought about how terribly sad it was that their lives were cut short. And about how a year ago I had been about as pregnant as she was then. It was very odd and moving.
On the day we went, it was very crowded and busy, yet no one there was loud or disrespectful in any way. Kids weren’t running around, and everyone seemed fascinated.
I saw lots of people marveling at the majesty of the human body - just amazed.
The area where the pregnant woman and the fetuses were was almost like a library; everyone was so respectful; whispering, standing there in awe.
I would go again in a minute and I would recommend it to anyone. The awe and respect I saw in people’s faces for the human body and human life was inspiring.

[TSgt]

I would go again in a minute and I would recommend it to anyone. The awe and respect I saw in people’s faces for the human body and human life was inspiring.

Thank you for your sensible reflection of this exhibit. My wife and I saw it in Las Vegas and it has now come to Cincinnati which is close to where we live.

We were awestruck at the magnificence of the human body left knowing without a doubt that we are truly divine creations of God. In the short two hours it took us to get through the exhibit my knowledge of my body increased ten-fold.

I would have no reservation taking my children providing they were old enough to understand what they were seeing and I am disheartened by the overly prudish and ignorant individuals who believe the exhibit is some kind of ghoulish haunted house. Ironically in my area these morally superior individuals are the same folks who cannot seem to keep their priests' hands off of young children.

[Radix]

Of course I see your point about the human body being inspiring and all of that.

I went with a group who were (myself as well) in an Educational Program involving health care.

I personally left the exhibit with 2 minds.

On the one hand it was fascinating and enlightening. On the other it was a bit macabre and disturbing.

Some of the displays were really strange as in the saggitudinal (sp) cuts, while others such as the coal miner lungs contrasted with the smoking and non smoking lung were simply amazing.