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CattleArmy

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City's Union Station is hosting another blockbuster exhibit.

"Bodies Revealed" displays actual human body parts -- 250 dead bodies, limbs and other organs. The exhibit's six-month run opens Feb. 29.

Union Station officials put the show on a par with the recent Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in terms of educational and inspirational value. They expect 100,000 people will see the exhibit.

Segments of the show will focus on different body systems.

Controversy surrounding similar shows stems from questions about where the bodies came from.

The exhibit's medical director said they came from people in China who had agreed to donate their bodies to medical schools before dying of natural causes.

The preservation process involves infusing the bodies with silicone.

"When we remove the skin and we look at the body, we're really looking in a mirror. We're looking at ourselves," said Dr. Roy Glover, of Premiere Exhibitions "We need to take better care of our bodies. We need to understand them better, so there's no more practical information that a person could want than to come and to learn more about the body that we live in."
 

CattleArmy

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By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and ANNA SCHECTER
Feb. 15, 2008
Authorities in China and New York have opened investigations into allegations that a black market in Chinese bodies, which may include executed prisoners, is sending corpses to the United States for public display.

Anatomy of Worldwide Body TradeThe investigations come in the wake of an ABC News report, that aired this Friday on "20/20", that features a self-admitted participant of a bodies black market who described "body runs" to locations where bodies, including those of executed prisoners, were sold for $200 to $300.

The man, who asked that his identity be concealed because he feared arrest, produced photos he said he took at a facility where he was shown what was available.

He says he began picking bodies on his next trip to the facility but was not able to take photos then.

He said some of the bodies were given to Chinese companies that supply corpses preserved in plastic for display in the United States.

Subpoenas from the New York attorney general were served Thursday on Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, which operates body shows in more than a dozen cities.


In a statement, the Office of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said it investigating "whether representations made to the public about the methods used to obtain the bodies exhibited in the U.S. are in fact false."

Premier Exhibitions said it would cooperate fully in the investigation.

In its public statements, Premier has said all of its bodies are supplied by the plastination laboratories of the Dalian Medical University in Dalian, China.

The president of the Dalian Medical University, Dr. Tang Jianwu, told ABC News his university does not supply bodies to Premier or any company for public display.


The supplier for Premier's "Bodies...the Exhibition" is actually a private, for-profit company called the Dalian Medi-Uni Plastination Labs located 30 miles away from the Dalian Medical University.
 

Steve

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Most of the controversial exhibits receive federal funding.. adding to the outrage.. this one to my knowledge is not publicly funded but due to the investigation into the possibly illegally obtained corpses it is still costing taxpayer money..

add in.. ""it teaches that, once he is deceased, there is nothing wrong with taking a person's body without his consent; it teaches that there is nothing wrong with exploiting the dead in order to make a profit, as long as it is in the name of science or education or art. It teaches that it is incredibly easy to dehumanize others."

but in my real opinion.. just another cheap sleazy chinese imported product that we could have easily supplied enough prisoners from our own jails to fulfill the needed corpses..
 

CattleArmy

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I was recently in a city where this display was coming and I watched the local news have varied opinions on it. One church had already put out a statement that children should not be taken to it for field trips. Would I go see it? I'm not sure. I'd be scared I was missing a valuable educational experience on the science of our bodies, yet I would worry I couldn't get the picture out of my mind if it was that disturbing.

If they truely are bodies donated to science then I can be more ok with the display however if the bodies are prisioners and in a sence just picked up then I think it's wrong to make a profit off of the dead.
 

kolanuraven

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http://www.slate.com/id/2128541/slideshow/2128675/



Is/was it the same as this?


I saw this display in Philly, or maybe it was New York, a few yrs ago. I would not advise eating before you go...or if you can't separate what you see from emotions.....BUT.....BUT....BUT....it's AMAZING and I'd not have missed it for the world now!!!
 

jigs

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I am going to be in KC this weekend.....but I do believe I will pass on the show. jeepers creepers !
 

CattleArmy

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kolanuraven said:
http://www.slate.com/id/2128541/slideshow/2128675/



Is/was it the same as this?


I saw this display in Philly, or maybe it was New York, a few yrs ago. I would not advise eating before you go...or if you can't separate what you see from emotions.....BUT.....BUT....BUT....it's AMAZING and I'd not have missed it for the world now!!!


Yep that's it.
 

kolanuraven

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CattleArmy said:
kolanuraven said:
http://www.slate.com/id/2128541/slideshow/2128675/



Is/was it the same as this?


I saw this display in Philly, or maybe it was New York, a few yrs ago. I would not advise eating before you go...or if you can't separate what you see from emotions.....BUT.....BUT....BUT....it's AMAZING and I'd not have missed it for the world now!!!


Yep that's it.


I'd say kids that were old enough and already studying anatomy etc in school would do OK with the exhibition. I'd not take little kids in there as they'd be all over you!!!

It's amazing and the way the items were displayed was very tasteful and proper....it's wasn't done in ' boogie-man' style...it was stated and presented in a purely factual informative manner.
 
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jigs said:
I am going to be in KC this weekend.....but I do believe I will pass on the show. jeepers creepers !

Me too jigs-- thirty years of picking up bodies and body pieces and setting thru autopsies has given me as much education about anatomy and dead bodies as I want to have.... :(
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Oldtimer said:
jigs said:
I am going to be in KC this weekend.....but I do believe I will pass on the show. jeepers creepers !

Me too jigs-- thirty years of picking up bodies and body pieces and setting thru autopsies has given me as much education about anatomy and dead bodies as I want to have.... :(



Jigs would probably prefer to see some different body parts. :wink:
 

aplusmnt

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Oldtimer said:
jigs said:
I am going to be in KC this weekend.....but I do believe I will pass on the show. jeepers creepers !

Me too jigs-- thirty years of picking up bodies and body pieces and setting thru autopsies has given me as much education about anatomy and dead bodies as I want to have.... :(



Jigs would probably prefer to see some different body parts. :wink:

:lol: I believe there is a strip club just a few blocks north of union station And many of them body parts have been infused with silicone also. :lol:
 

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