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I was just watching MSNBC, and they said in Floridia they have a muesam of cadavera(Dead people. Nowcome on is that gross or what?

That is gross!!!!!! Reminds me of a torture chamber museum I once saw in Germany! Yikes!! Also, my dad is a medical doctor. Don't know if they still do this, but at one time he said that the people that donated their bodies to science are literally tagged and put into a tank of preservative where others are bobbing around. When students need a body to work on, a body is retrieved, worked on and returned to the tank for future research! Yucko!!

A similar human anatomy exhibit called "Body Worlds" is now showing in the United States and has drawn more than 15 million visitors since its debut in Tokyo in 1996. It has also drawn criticism from medical ethicists, however, and the condemnation of religious groups that claim it violates the sanctity of the human body.




It's not a unique thing, actually. Mainly this type of 'exhibit' would be in medical schools/institutions. The debate here in Florida, besides being "is it interesting?"

is that the bodies or corpses are those that relatives not have granted permission.

The bodies were obtained legally but belonged to Chinese people who died unidentified or unclaimed by family members and were preserved at the Dalian Medical University of Plastination Laboratories in China, according to the exhibition's medical director, Roy Glover.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01553.html

Personally, I wouldn't go and see it, I'm not into that kind of stuff, but a lot of people are interested to see what is under the skin...something they would never have a chance to see.

you know what they did in the old days , they use to put a bell in a casket, to makesure the person was dead. Because if they weren't they had to ring the bell inside the casket. YEK

Well, everyone is fascinated with mummies and all, it is no different-they just haven't been dead as long.

I don't think it's gross at all. There's plenty of people out there intrigued by this sort of thing, and it's a good thing they are. Without people "into" cadavers, etc., there'd be no forensic science, no morticians, and a much smaller understanding of the human body.

I'd never take up a profession like that, but I think it's cool.

People dedicate their bodies to science for study, so this just might be another version of it.

When my sister broke her neck in an accident - she had numerous surgeries and she has cadaver bones in her neck..These dead people save lives all the time..Got to love the DEAD ones! :wah:

The "Bodyworld" exhibit left Cleveland's Science Center at the end of September. I took my twelve year old grandson to see it. It was a perfect time to have my grandson see the miracle of our bodies ,and life. There were human lungs plasticized that showed a healthy lung, a smokers lung and a coalminers lung. As we stood looking at the lungs I asked my grandson to promise me that he would never smoke. There was a five months pregnant woman exhibited showing her baby in place in the birth canal. There were fetus in jars from just weeks of conception to full term. What a perfect display of life and the responsibility of birth control to avoid an unwanted pregnancy! We were both "awed" by the exhibit. It was understood that the bodies we were looking at had been volunteered by their inhabitants for this purpose. I was extremely proud of the Cleveland Science Center acquiring this exhibit and the attendance for its stay proved tremendously successful.

jimsaysletitgo wrote: [...] There was a five months pregnant woman exhibited showing her baby in place in the birth canal. There were fetus in jars from just weeks of conception to full term. What a perfect display of life and the responsibility of birth control to avoid an unwanted pregnancy! [...]
I would love to give my opinion of this statement, but don't want to take the thread off-topic.



Would you be kind enough to start a new thread elaborating on your idea?

I am not quite sure how this "thread" stuff all plays out. When I am asked to start a new thread I am not sure if it is going in response to your question of "elaborating." I would like to elaborate but don't want to as you said , "go off topic."

I went to the body world exhibition a couple of years ago in london it was fascinating the bodies are real but because of the way they have been preserved they don`t look real. But then I have also seen a couple of real live post mortems which are completely different - not for the squeemish - still a facsinating subject .