Body worlds 3

[jmace]

 

Saw the show last night..awesome, just so awesome, I hate gory movies and such and so I was worried but what an amazing show and if your at all interested in how your body works and what it looks like inside it is really worth it.

 

from bodies with no muscles but the whole arterial sytstem's on display, or your central nervous system, or just tendons or just muscles or any combo, just so cool. Pl us all your organs, some healthy some not, a fat man compared to a skinny one, arterial systems of lamb and chickens, your penis..everything

 

IF your not keen to seeing the fetus plastination then you can walk right by that room, but seeing a fetus from 8 weeks to 33 was pretty amazing.

 

awesome show

 

apparantly, 500 americans signed up to donate their body, and 18 canadians.

 

The show in NY right now is a copy cat show from an Asian artist..with shady ties on his body donations, this show all bodies have been donated.

 

Science World

[Jim]

apparantly, 500 americans signed up to donate their body, and 18 canadians.

Science World

 

This exhibit is not without controversy. Google and you can find links to Seattle and NY Times articles regarding the show and the refusal of the exibition owners to produce any death certificates or signature releases to the press. And their links to somewhat shady organizations in China. Fulan Gong is requesting the boycott of this and other types of shows because of their percieved link of missing members and the lack of a paper trail. Despite what the show producers claim, something smells funny here and it ain't formaldehyde. Lots of money to be made on both ends of the market.

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5637687

Edited September 15, 2006 by Jim

[jmace]

from your site, it explicitly says:

 

Body Worlds should not be confused with its competitor, BODIES... The Exhibition. Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds is now in St. Paul, Minn., Houston and Boston. BODIES... The Exhibition is in Tampa, Fla., Atlanta, Las Vegas and New York City.

 

Roy Glover, spokesman for BODIES... The Exhibition, says its cadavers -- all from China -- did not come from willing donors.They're unclaimed," Glover says. "We don't hide from it, we address it right up front."

[Jim]

Yea - that clears it up!!

 

"BODIES... The Exhibition, relies on documentation from a country with a problematic human rights record. Even at best, its exhibitors say the bodies were not formally donated by people who agreed to be displayed."

 

"But Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is uncomfortable with the practice. Regardless of the law, the use of unclaimed bodies in human-anatomy exhibits is questionable, Caplan says.

 

"There's a fine line between education and exploitation in these kinds of exhibits. And you only want people to be displayed if you have their consent, not the consent of a third party," he said.

 

Since the bodies are either unclaimed or unidentified, obtaining consent was impossible, Glover said"

 

How convenient.

 

Edited September 15, 2006 by Jim

[jmace]

any ways jim, all the stuff you just posted and have posted is in regards to a whole other show...

 

the show I saw is called body world not bodies..two different artists with two different ways of obtaining bodies...

[RemoWilliams]

This is precisely why I could never be an OBGyn Dr - i could never look at t 'n a the same way, knowing all the shit underneath

[Luna]

I think this show is going to be followed up with one of deformed babies and beared ladies.

[Dechristo]

It's a great show for those, as I, that perceive human bodies (or any "living" object) as biological machines. It's interesting gaining insight to how machines work.

[G-spotter]

It's all machine and no ghost.

[Dechristo]

depends on your perception/definition

[Stonehead]

Descartes is sitting in a bar, having a drink. The bartender asks him if he would like another. "I think not," he says, and vanishes.

[sill]

I've talked to several people who have seen it, they all say it is amazing. I'm going tommorow, I'm psyched to see it for myself

[Mos_Chillin]

Plastinating your expired pet can't be too far off....

[archenemy]

I am going to this in a couple of days--I can't wait!

I bought the tickets 15 minutes after they went on sale.

 

jmace:

glad to hear you liked it!!!

[Peter_Puget]

news

[archenemy]

Lame how Christians say "What would Jesus do" to remind themselves to emulate Him; but then freak out when someone like Madonna or a corpse hops up on a cross for a moment or two. It's ain't like Jesus was the only one to die from crucifixion.

[Gary_Yngve]

I saw BodyWorld a few years ago in LA. Incredible experience.

 

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/s...true#Post381785

[lummox]

aw man. i cant eat jerky for now. thanks for nothing.

[Dechristo]

your post-nasal drip should ease swallowing it.

[archenemy]

aw man. i cant eat jerky for now. thanks for nothing.

Heh heh heh

I love gross jokes. I am going to say this while in the exhibit and see how people react. I'll post a little TR so I can refer to it three years later when someone else goes and posts something about the show on this blasted site.

[Figger_Eight]

Yeah - I saw it in LA when I was down there also. It's absolutely fascinating. Did they bring the guy on his horse to Seattle?

[Mos_Chillin]

Is that The Man? The one I had to go see? About the horse?

[KaskadskyjKozak]

this stuff is really disturbing

[G-spotter]

this stuff is really disturbing

Does it make you hungry? Or aroused?

[Mos_Chillin]

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