[BigKeithO]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Go online. There's all kinds of places one can see the wonders inside the human body. Some are even interactive. Guarantee you'll learn more from those sites than staring like a slack-jawed yokel at some corpses.

I've never seen this particular display but I've seen 'Body World's' twice now. I've also seen lots of books with pictures of the human body. You might not enjoy it and you might not understand it but there is something to be said with seeing these displays in person, a book or the internet cannot do it justice.

The human body is amazing and there isn't anything that isn't tastefully done at these shows, this isn't "horror theater" or anything like that. They also have displays with animals in various poses (such as a human playing polo on a horse... with no skin on either), it is all very interesting. The first time I went they had a special section in the back separated from the rest of the show. It was a special display that showed human fetuses at various stages of development. Now I wasn't sure about that one before going in, I didn't know what to expect and was prepared to be horrified. Again it was tastefully done and gives you a new understanding of just how amazing a human being really is. I believe you gain something from these shows that you cannot get from looking at some pictures online.

Try it some time.

[Freakinoldguy]

So he doesn't want people in Winnipeg to see these bodies because they come from China and may have been executed Criminals.

Fair enough. Now, turn around being fair play, I expect him to try and get a court order to shut down all WalMarts in Winnipeg, since, most of their products come from China and some of them may have been made by the on display deceased.

But then, the truth about his stance comes out.

$1:

"I think the whole thing is ghoulish," he said. "But that's a separate issue."

[Khar]

PublicAnimalNo9, you will not see the same breadth and diversity of information so well compacted and well placed than seeing it at a museum. The degree of samples containing variable malignancies is impressive, and he provides unique and innovative displays in seeing them from various points of view, from saggital cross sections through direct full organ samples.

In another thread here, I said I've been to his exhibits several times. Although I've never seen one with a man on a horse, it is a unique experience to see a human arm shown only by it's blood vessels, or to see the entire visible nervous system perfectly placed. While some cadavers do look odd, they are placed in ways which provide a first hand look directly into a body, and for most people who are concerned about looking on the internet and perhaps seeing something they did not want to see, there is a level of acceptability in knowing what you are going to see from going to one of these exhibits.

It's own existence promotes education, especially in people who, in other mediums, would not think of visiting sites or doing research on their own. I would bet a lot of the people who end up coming to these exhibits are ones who do not normally have the interest in the topic, but have been given an opportunity to see for the first time some of the things which are available to see there. Keep in mind, this exhibit is years old and not all people in the world, let alone Canada, frequent the internet. Nor do those that actually frequent the internet always come from the same group who haunt forums and search the internet for ways to entertain themselves. I do not go looking on the internet for the history of early peoples from around the world, and I always have a chance to do so. However, when I was given the chance to see it condensed down (ie seeing tons of things which I could miss or take hours finding ALONE on the net) with real samples, art, and other interesting and interactive exhibits at a Victoria museum when I was last there, I leapt at the opportunity. This is true of all exhibits, museums, expositions, conventions, and other things people travel to -- yeah, you can probably find information, pictures and such on the net, but you cannot equate it to being there.

For those who have gone, they would know that in the last few years the section on how the bodies were obtained for the various samples has grown (seriously, it takes a good ten minutes to go through all the placards on it, from what I remember), from people who willingly gave their bodies directly to the exhibit to people who contributed their bodies to organizations to which the folks behind Body Worlds could get samples of diseased tissue and the like. Since it does have to do with people giving over their bodies for science, there has to be a ton of paperwork done with the folks they obtain the bodies from, and this is all recorded from those organizations through the group that does it to show where each exhibit came from. Given the degree of scrutiny they are under, I would agree with the others in this thread that Brenda is right, and they've faced these allegations before and come through. This lawyer is yet another media darling, demanding something occur without proof, evidence, or clear thinking, and the sad thing is that those are not preresequites for making it into modern Canadian media. When you contact a news agency about wild suspicions, I'd hope he'd have some good evidence behind them.