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Preservation through Plastination

Posted September 14, 2006 10:00 AM

Currently on display at Boston's Museum of Science: Body Worlds 2, featuring "whole-body plastinates, individual organs, organ configurations, and transparent body slices." Two hundred human specimens show how the body responds internally to the actions of everyday life and sports, as well as disease and other debilitations. What the heck is Plastination? The museum's Web site has all the glorious, non-gory details.

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09/14/2006 4:24 PM

I checked out the Body Worlds exhibit a few weeks back. It's both inspiring and incredibly creepy. There is great educational value in seeing the workings of the human body but it's impossible to divorce yourself from the fact that you are looking at real cadavers posed as if engaged in live activities. It's not grusome in any way, but I found it a bit unsettling.

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09/20/2006 2:36 AM

The show looks pretty cool, but one thing bothers me. All the bodies seem to have come from China. There's something in that statement about how China is taking over the plastics industry to the extreme, but my concern is how they got the bodies....

I've heard reports that illegal organ harvesting is big money over there, a lot of that coming from the forced labor camps that hold political prisoners. You just might be staring at the insides of a Fulan Gong practicer, or a journalist who has 'disappeared'. The pregnant lady and baby is really creepy, was she tortured to death while pregnant? Or did they die of natural causes but the bodies stolen?

There is no accounting for where they got the bodies from.

Of course that may all be rumors, but I find it to be rather plausible given what I've heard of what goes on there from Human Rights groups. Does anyone have any information about this? I hate to speculate, but that's the way to get to the truth.....

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