Bodies: The Exhibition

[NAKID]

It's currently on display at the Foxwoods Casino. Went today and it sure gives you an appreciation of everything that goes together to make us work the way we do. I don't think it's disturbing, it's done very tastefully. Both the girls (11 and 3) enjoyed it. I highly recommend it.

[lilysmama]

Body Worlds is equally impressive.  Our boys were 10 and 8 when we went.  It's down in San Diego right now.

[Kopfjäger]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.brandoneley.com/wp-content/uploads/bodies2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.brandoneley.com/where-do-the-bodies-come-from/&usg=__vsTDgNB834xFI5ifPdYfRpmrroE=&h=800&w=600&sz=152&hl=en&start=34&um=1&tbnid=RUlNkHuMS3k5LM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbodies%2Bexhibit%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18%26um%3D1

[mstevens]

Is this like Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds thingies? We missed that when it was in Boston and are mighty peeved about that. The wife, brat, and I have long wanted to catch one of those.

[NAKID]

It's only a few hours away. Come on down Doc...

[ab]

I regret seeing the bodies exhibit.  Not that it was gross or anything but the controversy surrounding it.  In short, the bodies are not really necessarily volunteered rather Chinese prisoners.  (60 minutes show had covered this topic some time ago).  In addition, it just feels like disrespect of sacred body for profit. 

[derby]

I regret seeing the bodies exhibit.  Not that it was gross or anything but the controversy surrounding it.  In short, the bodies are not really necessarily volunteered rather Chinese prisons.  (60 minutes show had covered this topic some time ago).

depends on the exhibit... the original "body worlds" series of exhibits are all volunteers/donations.

on the other hand, at least some of the copycat exhibits aren't.

[red baron]

Body Worlds is equally impressive.  Our boys were 10 and 8 when we went.  It's down in San Diego right now.

Especially the guy on the skateboard.

[He Man]

i saw it at the exhibit about 5 years ago, the controversy was got to the point where they offered to refund anyones ticket who felt like they didnt want to pay for it.

i still have mine.

[psycledelic]

was the pregnant woman being shown.  That was a little freaky IMO!

[cyrus buelton]

depends on the exhibit... the original "body worlds" series of exhibits are all volunteers/donations.

on the other hand, at least some of the copycat exhibits aren't.

That's really not true.

The Bodies Exhibit, the original one, can't verify if the bodies are all donated are not. The CEO of Premier (the "owner") resigned over the case.


Regardless of where the bodies come from.......

I thought it was a very cool experience and would go again.

[Statler]

The Wiki history is pretty interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BODIES..._The_Exhibition

[cyrus buelton]

The Wiki history is pretty interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BODIES..._The_Exhibition

Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read.

[derby]

That's really not true.

The Bodies Exhibit, the original one...

again, i was referring to the original "body worlds" series of exhibits which predate the "bodies" exhibit by about 10 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Worlds

an excerpt:

All whole body plastinates exhibited in Body Worlds come from donors who gave informed consent via a unique body donation program. Only adults over eighteen years of age can sign up to the programme. The pre-natal and infant specimens in the exhibitions are obtained from morphological collections previously held by universities and medical institutions.

Bodies from deceased persons who did not give consent – such as deceased hospital patients from Kyrgyzstan and executed prisoners from China – have never been used in a Body Worlds exhibition. In January 2004, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that von Hagens had acquired corpses of executed prisoners in China; he countered that he did not know the origin of the bodies, and returned seven disputed cadavers to China. In 2004, von Hagens obtained an injunction against Der Spiegel for making the claims.

A commission set up by the California Science Center in Los Angeles in 2004 confirmed von Hagens' commitment to ethical practices, and published its Summary of Ethical Review. The commission matched death certificates and body donation forms, and verified informed legal consent of the bodies in the exhibitions. However, to ensure the privacy and anonymity promised to body donors, von Hagens' Institute for Plastination maintains a firewall between body donors' documentation and finished plastinated bodies. To date, more than 9,000 individuals have pledged to donate their bodies to the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, in Germany.

[NAKID]

was the pregnant woman being shown.  That was a little freaky IMO!

Yes, she was there. It was a little odd. Almost seemed as though they were unaware of her pregnancy when she died...