BODIES...The Exhibition?

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It’s very difficult for me to imagine how (and why) anyone would choose to believe any sort of assurances made by the government of China.
 
Based solely on the description I got from the website the OP posted:
Questions regarding the of the origins of the bodies continue to be raised. Reporting from Dalian, China for the NYTimes, David Barboza described"a ghastly new underground mini-industry" with “little government oversight, an abundance of cheap medical school labor and easy access to cadavers and organs.”
Premier representatives openly admit the cadavers are not donated. State Anatomical boards have objected that without state or federal laws “you have no documentation of who this is”.The Director of North Carolina State Board of Funeral Services stated “Somebody at some level of government ought to be able to look at a death certificate, a statement from an embalmer, donation documents. That’s a reasonable standard to apply.” The Florida Anatomical board fought the Tampa exhibit.Its Director said the exhibit should be shut down.
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The red empasis pretty much tells me, it’s immoral. But that’s just my:twocents:
 
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Based solely on the description I got from the website the OP posted:

The red empasis pretty much tells me, it’s immoral. But that’s just my:twocents:
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I agree.

Under any circumstances, who can trust the word of communist China?
 
I am not certain what I believe about this particular exhibition. There are many factors to consider.

However, I must object to the repeated opinion that such display of the human body is objectively immoral or contrary to the teachings of the Church.

The Church herself displays the human body, sometimes in elaborate fashion. We call these reliquaries and ossuaries.

Some images and discussion of these:

Relics, Cremation, and Organ Donation
 
I attended “Body Worlds” last year in Denver, which did not use bodies from China (at least it was never mentioned or part of any controversy). Archbishop Chaput had an article on it, which lined up very much with the Pittsburgh position.

http://www.archden.org/newspaper-columns/most-rev.-charles-j.-chaput-o.f.m.-cap.html

I went and found it fascinating. We talked with our 10 and 8 year olds (who also went) about the dignity of the people who had donated their bodies, and that this was science, not entertainment.
 
The physiology class I am in at my high school is going there for a field trip.
 
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