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Posted by becauseHElives (Member # 87) on :
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5351522?GT1=4189

Exhibit featuring real human bodies makes U.S. debut in LA

The controversial “Body worlds” display has been sparking protests across the globe for the past eight years By Kristie A. Martinez

Updated: 12:29 p.m. ET July 02, 2004LOS ANGELES - A pregnant woman lies on her side with a hand behind her head as if posing for a nude photograph. But her dead body isn't the only thing exposed. Her heart, intestines and 8-month-old fetus are visible as well.


The woman was one of more than 200 people who donated their cadavers for use in “Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies,” which makes its U.S. debut Friday at the California Science Center.

Intended to teach people about the human skeletal, cardiovascular and other systems, the final exhibit includes 25 bodies that have undergone a process called “plastination” in which body fluids are replaced with clear, pliable plastic.

Most have been skinned or dissected to reveal muscles, bones, nerves and organs. Some show damage done by cancer, lung disease and other illnesses.

A female body has been posed like a swimmer and hung from the ceiling with its arm muscles dangling from wrist bones. Two bodies—an adult and child—have been stripped down to blood vessels and positioned with the youth riding atop the shoulders of the grown-up.

Since debuting in Tokyo in 1996, the show has aroused controversy as well as curiosity. Its shocking display of flesh and bones has offended many observers who claim it violates the sanctity of the human body.

However, German scientist Gunther von Hagens, who created the exhibit and the preservation technique, defends his work as educational and enlightening. “It's more than time that we show how the body really looks,” he said.

Millions of viewers, numerous protests


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A cadaver preserved through a process called "plastination" is displayed at the California Science Center Wednesday, June 30, 2004, in Los Angeles

In the past eight years, "Body Worlds" has toured Asia and Europe, attracting nearly 15 million visitors and a number of critics who have dubbed von Hagens “Dr. Death” and “Frankenstein” because of his work.

In Frankfurt, Germany, the Lutheran church said the display was amoral and insulting to the dead. At a London show, one visitor covered the body of the pregnant woman with a blanket because he couldn't stand seeing the fetus.

Recent visitors to the California Science Center said they had mixed feelings about the coming exhibit.

Eva Edwards was fascinated until she discovered the exhibit featured real human bodies. She quickly saw a conflict between her religious and scientific beliefs. “Religiously, we feel the body should be respected and buried,” she said. “I don't really feel that scientifically.”

The impact on her 9-year-old daughter was even more profound. The girl started crying when she realized the bodies in the preview pictures were real.

The body parts didn't bother 16-year-old Zahra Nankani, who was visiting the center as part of a youth conference on medicine. “I think it's amazing to see real live body parts, and the vulnerability and intricacy of a human body,“ Nankani said. “Most people don't get to see this.”

Visitors younger than‘The limited possibilities—to be either burned or to rot in earth—always seemed degrading to me and were problematic. It is a good thing that Professor von Hagens went beyond these limited possibilities.’


— Female donor


13 won't be permitted to see “Body Worlds” without a parent or guardian. Von Hagens, however, thinks adults might have more problems with the exhibit than children.

Adults' “view of anatomy is very fixed and preoccupied by the portrayal in Hollywood films that anatomy is connected with crime, horror and decay,” he said. “As long as kids are not brought here against their will, they really love it.”

During exhibit stops in Asia and Europe, about 6,000 people have signed papers donating their bodies to von Hagens' institute for possible plastination. Most hope to further medical science, he said.

“The limited possibilities—to be either burned or to rot in earth—always seemed degrading to me and were problematic,” wrote one female donor whose identity was withheld. “It is a good thing that Professor von Hagens went beyond these limited possibilities.”

Jeffrey N. Rudolph, president of the California Science Center, said the exhibit underwent a rigorous review by religious leaders, medical professionals and bioethicists before it was brought to Los Angeles.

He said the panel knew it would make people uncomfortable but decided the educational value outweighed any possible controversy.

“It's not an ethical issue,” Rudolph said. “It's more of a visceral reaction.”
 

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Posted by ISITjhn423 (Member # 2432) on :
 
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return. - Genesis 3:19
 

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Posted by Niedziejkore (Member # 2773) on :
 
ISIT, you have to realize that that's a metaphor. We don't come from dust, nor do we turn into dust when we die all god was saying was that we are born from nothing and when we die we become nothing. Or rather something like that, because we are actually created from egg and sperm. When we die we break down into, well, fertilizer, usually through the act of decaying... however through mummification, the body can stay preserved for an extended period of time. mummification is a natural process as well as decaying.

I'd actually like to see the exhibit.
 

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Posted by Kristi (Member # 3396) on :
 

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Originally posted by ISITjhn423:
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return. - Genesis 3:19

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Originally posted by ISITjhn423:
So from dust we are and dust we go.

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