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Bodies Exhibit
öde:
It's pretty rude, especially if the person was religious, if family members wanted to carry out rituals or just have a plain funeral, if you didn't want your insides to be seen by millions of people, etc. I think, within reason, the requests of the deceased or their family should be honoured.
Alex C:
I agree with öde. I think what you do with bodies is more or less ethically neutral, and I don't particularly care what happens to the corpse when someone dies, but not everyone feels that way, and my consideration for those people's feelings is enough to make respectful measures a worthy endeavor. Now, if someone managed to cook up some hypothetical scenario in which exhuming corpses and other rather ghoulish actions would result in saving lives, I'm afraid I'd favor the needs of the living over the rights of the dead, but a plasticizing exhibit doesn't qualify for that; a better argument could perhaps be made for those physicians and thinkers who once broke the law in the past in order to learn about anatomy in the name of science and medicine, but even then, I am much, much happier with our current system in which people can choose to donate their bodies to science rather than just declaring open season on the deceased (especially since yes, people have been murdered just to be used as a subject, and surely nobody's okay with that). I should probably look into setting it up so my body's donated to science when the inevitable occurs sometime. If nothing else I'm kind of curious how those considerations jibe with being designated as an organ donor (which I already am).
Gurkburk:
I think you're missing my point, the bodies were unclaimed or unidentified. The company that arranged the show said that they took great measure to locate any relatives. Basically no living person is directly affected by this.
calenlass:
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--- Quote from: ruyi on 16 Feb 2008, 03:31 ---pedantry, compliment
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Thank you Ruyi! It was appreciated.
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(It is spelled "phasing".)
ruyi:
(no really, fazing! faze vs. phase)
anyways, body worlds does not use any bodies that are not from willing donors. however, the success of body worlds has caused a number of competing shows to spring up, and some of them may be using the bodies of chinese prisoners. another interesting issue: gunther von hagens is suing some of these competitors, but can this sort of thing really be copyrighted? it's art in some sense, i suppose, but the major part of the artistry comes from displaying the natural beauty of the human anatomy.
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