livescience.com — "Body Worlds, a controversial yet wildly popular traveling exhibit of real human bodies and body parts, has been raising eyebrows since it was first displayed in 1996. Nearly 20 million people have since visited one of its three touring editions."
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Closed AccountFeb 24, 2006
My body = science. My body = NOT art.
tablatronixFeb 24, 2006
I wish i had the opportunity to see this.I remember seeing a show on it about 4 years ago and was amazed.Theres also a guy that plasticized veins and then dissolved the rest.Incredible stuff.
applepenguinFeb 25, 2006
....this has been going on for years....
jamsFeb 25, 2006
Here are some videos of a live autopsy he performed in the UK:<a class="user" href="http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomy/">http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomy/</a>
samoscratchFeb 26, 2006
"The human body is beautiful and amazing and deserves to be looked at at all angles possible. and then..."they are corpses...empty lumps of meat that resemble human beings."lol
emlprimeMar 17, 2006
I think people fear gore because it's unfamiliar. I think this because not all people fear gore. Talk to morticians and doctors. They don't get grossed out in the same way. I went fishing with my dad when I was a kid. I got freaked out by having to kill a worm to bait my hook. I got more freaked out when I actually killed the fish. I remembered this when I signed up to work at a fish plant and wondered if this would be a problem.Towards the second week, we played our first game of freezer floor hocket with a #1 6-9 lb sockeye salmon. We started flinging fish hearts at each other because it was funny. People get upset and talk about how horrible it is to be desensitized to things. You should be sensitive to murder. Murder is destructive and anti-social. We won't survive very well in a society where murder is not upsetting. You shouldn't necessarily be sensitive to death. People die. Old people die. Sick people die. In low tech societies, people die, you mourn and grieve, you bury them, you move on.