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I agree..which is why, as someone studying anatomy I would find it interesting to go...I will not go. These are dead people, regardless of how innocent it looks. I think I could understand this kind of display better if it was strictly for medical students or for those studying anatomy.


25 posted on 03/22/2008 10:47:22 AM PDT by freepertoo
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By the same token then, aren't open viewing in caskets at funeral homes macabre displays of disrespect?

I don't even know how you disrespect a corpse. I can get the concept or respecting one, but I think it's really is showing respect to the living who knew the invidual.

In many respects, it's like looking at stuffed animals on display at the Natural History Museum, although there the added element of that these people were actually frozen in time, forever on display.

Different people clearly will have different reactions to the concept. I found it fascinating, informative, and tastefully done, I have a much greater appreciation of how our body works.

I'm leaning toward eventual cremation. But if one this exhibits would prefer to display me as a keyboard commando, I'd be all right with that, too. They'd have to embalm or plasticize a bag of Cheetos at the display for authenticity purposes, though.

38 posted on 03/22/2008 1:00:44 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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