Florida museum to show corpses

[stdave]

Just something I read this morning. A museum in Gainsville, Florida is planning to put on a display of corpses despit objections from the medical and ethics counsel down there. The corpses are chinese citizens whose bodies either went unclaimed or unidentified. Their reasoning is there is no difference between showing them and the remains of a mummy, the only difference being is the age factor (thousands of years). Any thoughts on this?

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Well THERE'S a fun little daytrip!

Should we pack a lunch, or do they sell sandwiches in the museum cafeteria?

I'm not sure there's ever any logical rationale for displaying corpses, beyond morbid curiosity, but I'd like to read the full story behind the decision. Is there a link to a news story on this?

 

[Ignatz]

Ah, it was an embalmy day in Florida and we stopped in at a little muse-oleum called Cape Cadaveral. It was deadly dull and we had to pay a stiff fee. (Tipping the guide was de rigeur mortis of course.) We wouldn't be caught dead there again.

 

[lk70]

Ah, it was an embalmy day in Florida and we stopped in at a little muse-oleum called Cape Cadaveral. It was deadly dull and we had to pay a stiff fee. (Tipping the guide was de rigeur mortis of course.) We wouldn't be caught dead there again.

CHOKE! ROFLMAO!

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Very clever, Ignace...

 

[Newcastle Uni]

Did you ever get to see the work of Professor Gunther Von Hagens?? He was quite popular in Europe and even performed an autospy in front of paying spectators that was screened in its entirity (give or take) on British television. What was the setting? An operating theatre of course! It was originally called a theatre because people used to observe operations, so why not continue this tradition?

Here is some of his work, that can be seen in his Bodyworlds exhibitions. It seems that he is currently 'touring' the US

 

[Newcastle Uni]

Oh. I should mention that our professor takes donated bodies, preserves these and then arranges them for display. One of my favourites features a man who has had his skin removed to display his musclature. What did the professor do with the skin I hear you say. Well, the chap who was skinned holds his skin in one bare arm.

 

[Oddjob0226]

I think they can display whatever they want as long as it Ignatz keeps churing 'em out like that!

 

[jugner]

I've seen mummies, no big deal

 

[Newcastle Uni]

I've seen mummies, no big deal

Yeah.....2000 year old eviscerated and dehydrated objects that resemble the human form about as much as the Elephant man and the preserved body of a recently deceased china-man. I see no difference there.

 

[Oddjob0226]

Yeah.....2000 year old eviscerated and dehydrated objects that resemble the human form about as much as the Elephant man and the preserved body of a recently deceased china-man. I see no difference there.

You can make them look that way with an Impressionist/Deconstructionist approach. I wouldn't pay to see it, but the fact that it exsists isn't really hurting me, either. Shoot, that's probably about the only way anything of mine will end up in a museum anyway!

 

[MrMacphisto]

I bet necrophiliacs will come from all over the place to see this (pun intended).

 

[kurchatovium]

A corpse is a corpse unless of course the corpse of course can talk of course...... (sung to Mr Ed TV show song)

 

[Haltickling]

Oh yes, I can remember those endless debates about Gunther van Hagens and his exhibition "Body Worlds" in various German cities. Some people even tried to stop him in court, but they failed. Van Hagens only had to withdraw a few exhibits with unclear documentation about the corpses' origin.

Such shows wouldn't exist if there weren't a certain demand for morbidity in society. He satisfied the demand and legally so, so what's the trouble? Personally, I wouldn't pay a cent to see this, but other people have different tastes...

 

[the_Baron]

any stiff competition from other exhibits?