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mattomjoe Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:41 AM
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'Body Worlds' exhibit -- Fascinating? Creepy? Both?
There was a recent cover story in the StarTribune about a traveling exhibit coming to the Minnesota Science Museum -- "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies." The exhibit features real cadavers posed with skin removed to reveal skin and muscle structures, etc. Follow link to story below:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5771121.html

Have you seen it? Would you go? On one hand, I think it would be very interesting, but on the other hand, dead bodies just kinda give me the creeps....
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:43 AM
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1. I will definitely go.
I can't wait.
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mattomjoe Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:46 AM
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2. The one I'm really unsure about it is the pregnant woman one....
especially considering that my wife and I are expecting.
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madame defarge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:46 AM
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3. Saw it in Chicago...
It is kind of weird. The bodies are covered with a plastic substance, so if you don't think about it, you sort of forget that they are real bodies. It is fascinating and educational. I wouldn't take young kids...
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:48 AM
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4. what a learning experience that would be...
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HERVEPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:48 AM
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5. You should go unless you're extremely squeamish
I just saw it in Philadelphia. I'm not dying to see dead bodies in general, but it wasn't troublesome at all, just very informative, interesting, and beautiful.
Kids, unless very young, generally don't have a problem with it either.
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mattomjoe Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:51 AM
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6. I wouldn't consider myself to be sqeamish, it more about getting past
the idea that these displays used to be people. From everything I've read, it does sound like it's not to be missed.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:54 AM
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7. Used to be people, yes. People who valued education so much
that they donated their bodies to be used for for that purpose. I think it's a good thing to honor their request.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:59 AM
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11. Actually most of the bodies are Chinese prisoners
Who's bodies were not claimed. If you look you will notice almost every one of the bodies is Asian. I know they claim they were donated, and I am sure a handful are, but most are the unclaimed prisoners.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 10:08 AM
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13. Do you have proof of this claim? n/t
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 12:05 PM
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20. I did research on the internet about this topic
While their PR says the bodies are all donated. The person who is running the show in NYC, which it is now showing, admits that the prisoner's bodies were used.
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HERVEPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:54 AM
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8. Strange as it may seem,...
I wasn't really thinking about them as people in general.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:55 AM
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9. wonderful, fascinating
and creepy all at the same time.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 09:56 AM
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10. I went to it
It does have a bit of an impact on people. I am an EMT and I have seen plenty of dead bodies. I have to say though this did give me a bit of a creepy feeling. I mean these were people at one time, now they are spending enternity playing chess or whatever. Still it was an educational and interesting experience.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 10:07 AM
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12. I can't wait for this exhibit.
What an incredible opportunity for laypeople to actually see how their bodies work.
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mattomjoe Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 10:14 AM
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14. Those of you who have seen it, did you encounter any protests
around the exhibit?
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 11:24 AM
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15. I love it
SCIENCE!
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 11:36 AM
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16. Denver Museum Has "Grossology" Showing Now
http://www.dmns.org/main/en/Professionals/Press/CurrentPressReleases/Press+Releases/Exhibitions/grossologyMainRelease.htm

Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body
Amazing Science That Will Make You Giggle and Groan

It’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Body
But Were Too Polite to Ask!
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 11:44 AM
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17. Gunther von Hagens did a televised autopsy over here in 2002
and at the start of this year, a fascinating four part series called "Anatomy for Beginners". I've never been to one of his exhibits, but find what he has done with the "plastination" process really very interesting.

Anatomy for Beginners: http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomy/
DVD: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007SME7M/

More on all this:
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomists/
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 11:45 AM
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18. Wonder what they'd say if you walked around the exhibit
with a jar of Mayonnaise and a loaf of Wonderbread.. :)
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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 11:46 AM
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19. Made me hungry.
I went out and had a big meal of steak tartar.
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RumpusCat Donating Member (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 12:18 PM
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21. Yes! I can't wait--going in NYC early next year
I'm taking my girlfriend who is somewhat squeamish, so she might have to step out, but I will be there happily with sketchbook in hand. I would love to take a medical human anatomy course and dissect a person. It's just that I like looking at the mechanical structures under the skin--I used to sketch out of Gray's Anatomy all the time.
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bluecrush Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 08:18 AM
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22. Very interesting but
too much artistic license. "Wing man" was over the top. It WAS fascinating to see the muscular structure of a horse.
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