When technology surpasses good taste....

[Tarkus]

This is just so creepy & disturbing, I just don't know what to say.......

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412150272dec15,1,5857925.story?coll=chi-homepagenews-utl

[lmanchur.]

you need to subscribe to view the link.

Can you C&P the story?? what is that??

[Tarkus]

Sorry, Lee...

I forgot you needed to subscribe. It's free but I know alot won't want to.

I know there's some debate about C&Ping but my take was if you give the proper credit & post a link, it was OK. I'll wait till Marc gives the OK on how he wants it done.

That pic is actually a real human body, drained with resins replacing the bodily fluids which keeps the complete body from deteriorating. Plus it has no smell...I'll be back on in a little while...

Excerpt....


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Body show expected to raise eyebrows

By Kevin Pang
Tribune staff reporter
Published December 15, 2004

The Museum of Science and Industry hopes visitors will find beauty is literally not just skin deep when they come to see one of the more controversial exhibits in recent memory.

Imagine human cadavers with muscles flexing, blood vessels twining, organs exposed and skinless. Now imagine them posed in lifelike situations. Riding a horse. Playing basketball. Pondering their next chess move.

The result is "Body Worlds," a traveling spectacle of the human anatomy set to debut Feb. 4 in Chicago and run through Sept. 5, the museum announced this week. The exhibit is currently wrapping up its Los Angeles run at the California Science Center, where it has attracted nearly 400,000 visitors since July.

"People go in with what they think it might be," museum spokeswoman Lisa Miner said. "But it is an experience. They tell us how compelling and profound it is."

The bodies on display are preserved through a technique called plastination by German doctor Gunther von Hagens. Body fluid and fat are replaced by a plastic and resin. At the end of the plastination process, the body parts--bones, flesh, nerves and all--retain their cell structure and color and have no smell. Visitors are invited to lean in as close as they want without touching them.

"There's not a single push button or LCD screen. But it's interactive," said Jean Franczyk, the museum's vice president of education and guest services.

In all, 200 specimens, including 25 intact bodies, make up the display. Nearly 16 million people have seen the exhibit in 10 countries.

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The above mentioned Doctor who's as creepy as his work....lol

[Shawndo]

YES! definitely creepy.
My perspective is that science doesn't yet exactly understand what happens when you die, and this type of thing just shouldn't be done until there is a better understanding.
You've all heard stories of hauntings; ghosts hanging around their old empty 'shells'.
My question is did the people give permission to the scientist to use their bodies in this manner after they died? That would at least be a starting point..

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Excerpt....;)

It has also brought protests from religious groups in Europe. Naysayers likened the display of cadavers in lifelike poses to a circus freak show.

The Museum of Science and Industry has formed an advisory panel with local religious leaders, medical ethicists and child psychologists to suggest program and curriculum ideas. Several specimens show the entire human form.

"It's important to recognize that we as a culture are sensitive about the human body and how it is portrayed," Franczyk said.

She hopes visitors walk away with a better understanding of their complex bodies and how they function. One display shows two human lungs: one healthy and pink, the other blackened from years of smoking.

Franczyk recalls thumbing through the comment book at the Los Angeles exhibit and reading an entry from a teenage girl: "It read, `I had better take care of this body of mine.'"

Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune

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