Add executed prisoners to the list.
Posted on 06/01/2008 1:03:38 PM PDT by wagglebee
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I don't see much objection to what we have facilitated in China, or what seems to be just ahead on the world stage. This is small potatoes.
I don’t understand why anyone would want to see something like, this let alone pay to!
This “museum” is absolutely despicable. And it’s unfair that I should have to be subjugated to its gruesome advertisements.
Almost as unfair as the dead having their innards put on display because some enterprising person bought them.
After all, remember the condemned murderer that donated his body to science? Death by lethal injection, and they immediately froze it solid, to be scraped, from the head down, a fraction of an inch at a time, photographing each layer as it was revealed?
Add executed prisoners to the list.
While I am vehemently opposed to abortion, I am not opposed to capital punishment. I am also unconcerned about what will be done with my body when I am through using it. It’s a Christian thing.
Too gruesome for me.
It’s sadistic “art”.
Although I have not seen it. I never liked the Body Worlds Exhibit. Something about respect and honor for the dead.
I know that Doctors must work with cadavers to learn their trade. But so must mortitians. I just don’t like the exhibit. Have just a little respect for the dead.
Hey Jack! Check this out!
I don’t see anything wrong with showing cadavers to the general public. However, there is absolutely no excuse for exporting unclaimed bodies in order to make a profit.
If this display was primarily about educating people about the body, it would have been put in a library or museum to be seen for free, not a traveling, profiteering circus.
Agreed. It would be a much different story if these were people who donated their bodies to science. I’d bet that people would willingly donate their bodies for the project. But, as you said - it should be displayed in a museum or medical college, not a traveling circus.
They say that there is “no way to tell”. I’m thinking of the TV Show Bones right now...
They can’t be serious when they say there is no possible way - DNA tests, and marks on the bones and such related to torture - unless the plasticizing process destroys such things.
Regardless, while I may not disagree with the project itself in a purely educational way, to use discarded bodies from China makes it SO questionable. Exploitive to say the least...
As I said in my post above this - there is no doubt that if given the opportunity people would willingly donate their bodies for this project. AND, this should be presented in a museum, or medical college/library or the like. The fact that this is a traveling profitable “freak” show, makes it disgusting and immoral IMHO...
Wonder if there is any truth to the claim that the exhibits have been wildly successful.
And yes, there are people who are addicted to looking at the dead. On the Internet and in this intance.
I had to look it up:
Plastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most microscopic properties of the original sample.
From Wikipedia.
I got mine at Wal*Mart.
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