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However, I found the show educational. I walked away from the exhibit slightly nauseated but with a profound appreciation for the majesty that his the human body. The complexity of something like the cardiovascular system, stripped from all it's surrounding bone and tissues was stunning to behold.
That being said, ew, icky. Gross.
"This exhibit displays human remains of Chinese citizens or residents which were originally received by the Chinese Bureau of Police. The Chinese Bureau of Police may receive bodies from Chinese prisons. Premier cannot independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons."
Some of the bodies are rumored to be those of executed Chinese political prisoners.
Is Bodies planning on coming back, or was this pulled out of someone's ass?
And, all ethical considerations aside, good fucking riddance. I got so sick of seeing that shit for months at a time.
Jeebusonastick, I don't see how this is relevant to the ethical issue that is being debated. If selling tickets to raping your own grandmother with an ice pick was profitable, would you do it?
Is it possible that the city could find a revenue stream that didn't involve the public display of dismembered corpses?
Even if the Bodies exhibit is exploitive that doesn't mean we need a blanket policy that makes us look like a bunch of bible-belt prudes. If you don't like an exhibit, don't go see it. I really don't want to hear SAM saying "Sorry, Damien Husrt - your art is too spooky,"
So all BODIES has to do is invent a religion, which should be rather easy as it's been done continually for eons, and charge for the privilege of letting heathens observe their arcane cult rituals. Gawd, I wish they had the balls to do that.
Does that make me a bad person?
What about educating our kids that you don't have to culturally desecrate another person to educate yourself about your body?
Ahead of me in the exhibit was a father and three children astonished by what they were seeing. They would stop here or there, and talk about each display. Watching them was supremely cool.
In high school I took anatomy/physiology, and as part of my grade we dissected dead cats. Now, I'm not particularly squeamish, but performing the actual cutting of something that had been once alive upset me a great deal. If the teacher had provided a cat cadaver with relevant anatomy incised for us to explore, I would have felt less anguish but just as much respect for the animal that was educating us.