Flayed and Partially Dissected Human Bodies Displayed in Ontario Science Centre Exhib

[WanderAimlessly]

Exhibits are getting sicker and sicker

Flayed and Partially Dissected Human Bodies Displayed in Ontario Science Centre Exhibit

TORONTO, October 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A “plastinated” cadaver, holding its own skin in one hand as though holding a trench coat adorns the front page of Dr. Gunther von Hagens website. Another flayed body is depicted suspended in mid-air as though leaping over a track and field hurdle. A skinless cadaver with most of its musculature semi-attached, posed as though running for a bus; a flayed and partially dissected pregnant woman; skinless dead foetuses; a flayed “teacher” with book and chalk in hand; all are part of Dr. von Hagen’s “anatomy art” exhibit, Body Worlds, that he says received fifteen million visitors and toured the world in 1995.

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[MommaKat]

This was just in the Cleveland Science Museum in August. Wasn’t discusting was interesting.

 

[BlindSheep]

I posted about this a while ago, when I saw an article about it online. I think it’s a desecration; we’re supposed to bury the dead, not use them for arts&crafts.

 

[Tonks40]

My son attended the showing of this exhibit earlier this year in Los Angeles with his science class. He was very fascinated by it, and it taught him a lot about human body structure and function.

 

[Courtneyjo]

Med students aren’t using cadavers much any more due to lack of access. The students learn from computer simulations. But when the med school is finished with its cadavers, there is an annual commemoration ceremony at a cemetary where the remains (maybe cremated) are laid to rest.

Are the people on display ever laid to rest with a dignified service? Additionally, it is troubling that corpses are being procured from China and Siberia, places not known for honoring human dignity.

This doctor gives me the creeps.:twocents:

 

[StephanieC]

For whatever it might add to this discussion, I have posted a link to Cardinal Justin Rigali’s comments about the Body World exhibit in Philadelphia:

cst-phl.com/050922/main.html

Here are some quotes from the text; I came across with the impression that he is urging caution & is skeptical about the motives of the exhibitor.

"…The donation of one’s body for medical research at the end of life has been commonly accepted in Catholic medical ethics for many years. The donation of one’s eyes, for example, is considered an act of charity when the donor is motivated by generosity and the organs are transplanted for another’s use and for improving another’s medical condition. The practice of donating organs and whole bodies for scientific research is sanctioned by Catholic medical morality, provided that the donor has given full and proper consent to the intended use of his or her body. "

"…Any exhibit of the human body, in any condition, living or dead, must show reverence and respect for it and must never contribute to devaluation of the sacredness of the human person. "

 

[Viki59]

I saw photos of this in a children’ s book, and wrote a poem about it as it bothered me so much. Here it is:

Man, Unwinged

There is an artist in Europe,
this is true, and therein
lies the horror,
who uses a human body, deceased,
with all the paperwork no doubt
completed, signatures notarized,
forms correctly filled in,
every i dotted and t crossed,
and with it creates art.

The SS colonel had a lampshade
made of human skin
stretched on a frame,
no doubt it cast a mellow light,
soothing for reading of an evening,
for counting up the totals of the men,
women and children sent to the
crematorium that day.

He flays the body,
and injects plastic into the muscles,
thus displaying his own ingenuity
as well as the creator‘s.

You may see the human figure,
as if striding,
one hand that never will grasp again
outstretched as if to grasp,
muscles spread like wings,
like feathers, attached at the insertion
only.
The red of muscles preserved, the blue of veins,
the symmetry and splendor of the human form.
And the parted lips,
the blank glass-eyeball stare,
the fled spirit.

 

[Eileen_T]

My 16 year old is disgusted that ancient mummified bodies are not shown proper respect, I am not even going to tell her about this.

When we deny human beings dignity and respect in the name of scientific research, we strip them of what is due to them as children of God, made in His image and likeness.

It very much appears that we are being led along a path that will make the horrors of the Nazi Death Camps irrelevent. What’s next?

 

[Ani_Ibi]

Viki59:

Man, Unwinged… the fled spirit.

This is a respectable poem. Good work.