I'm reminded of those photographs of nuclear explosions taken miliseconds after detonation.

Well it could possibly be a 3-d rendering. I know once in while people inject ink and take pictures of the ink's pathways to find things. I don't know how old it is, but put back a few years a picture like that would be cool stuff and would definitely be something your pep pep would hold on to. It just seems a little hard to believe that that mold was taken from a human body with no visible damage.

Not really, it's only hard to believe if you only think of cutting up the body to remove the plaster, which you wouldn't do since it's so inefficient compared to dissolving the tissues as mentioned (the plastors fine, just needs to be cleaned up apparently).

Yeah the Bodies Exhibit is all chinese political prisoners, etc. It was a fucking messed up idea to start with, that's why when my brother wanted to go I beat him silly. How can people fork money over and encourage that? Peoples' innards shouldn't be something you parade around like in a circus!

@Earl

b.t.w. with plastination they do not cut away the biological matter, they dissolve it in acid. so getting it out of the body isn't an issue, and the only thing gross about it is all the leftover skinwater.

Ugh, acid? That sounds even worse! Well, I guess not. As long as you're not sawing your frigging merry way through someone's skull I guess it's okay.

@Dada

This is exactly why I would have liked medicine.

Yeah, medicine is probably the only thing I'd do if I HAD to go into the medical field. Pharmaceuticals is where all the money's made, anyway.

Fuck now I get to eat dinner thanks. Crusty.

Well, that's what the internet's for. I just think it's a little morbid. I know most people go just because it's weird and it's something to do, but I don't think that justifies it at all. They tend to forget that these were living, breathing people once. I dunno. You think I'm making too much out of this?

*coxswain dies, his corpse is stolen by a necrophile, coxswain doesn't care...coxswain doesn't care at all...*

edit: Steel have you sent that in to like one of your fathers colleagues or something yet? maybe they know? Maybe you will hand it to them and they will be like "no. you cannot know of this. Project t.h.r.o.a.t.f.u.c.k. was supposed to be a secret, looks like your father fucked it all up for us..." and then he'll press a button and it will lockdown the facility I DONT KNOW WHAT IF

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Plaster casts of the various human organs and body parts is not something you normally parade around (last I checked museums are to preserve things/knowledge for the public). Of course the real thing doesn't last forever and will decompose, so by making a cast of it you can show that stuff to other people and teach them about it (also helps with people who can't take that stuff without making them sick) much much later.

Plaster casts of the various human organs and body parts is not something you normally parade around (last I checked museums are to preserve things/knowledge for the public). Of course the real thing doesn't last forever and will decompose, so by making a cast of it you can show that stuff to other people and teach them about it (also helps with people who can't take that stuff without making them sick) much much later.

Well yeah obviously the plaster cast has very important medical purposes. I was just talking about the Bodies Exhibit our city had last year. http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
People pretty much went to it because it was I SEE DEAD PEOPLE LOLOLOLOLZ. Now, I don't doubt that some people were genuinely interested in this, for medical or maybe even art purposes, but anything more than that is just disgusting. It's almost as bad as people who want to be cremated and have their ashes turned into fine jewelry for the family to wear. "HEY MOM I'MA GO AHEAD AND WEAR GRANNY TO THE PROM MKAY?" "Alright honey, just don't lose her." Maybe I'm just old fashioned to think that people should...I dunno? Respect the dead? Oh, that's right, I'm in the era of GTA 4 and SUPER COLUMBINE MASSACRE RPG, so I'm old beans.

People to this day are still after Riel's corpse to pilfer a piece of it for novelty/ for witch craft/ for ebay purposes. The thing thats stopping them is a huge hunk of stone right on top of his coffin. Famous corpses are not ever respected in the least, not ever. If people knew they could dig up Jesus's corpse they'd do so, take his pelvis, make a cross out of it, and sell it for millions.

Like I said before, I have no qualms with these being used for medical research. Research is something that benefits everybody, and the bodies are donated by the person anyway -- they're signed off in the will. But you cross a clear ethical line when you rip the skin off Chinese prisoners, embalm the suckers, and then position their limbs to make them look like they're playing football or chess for some fatass American tourists to gawk at.

I've read through some of the following sources and it isn't clear whether Chinese prisoners were actually used in the Bodies Exhibit, but honestly I wouldn't bother taking the chance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BODIES..._The_Exhibition

Questions regarding the origins of the bodies continue to be raised.[9] In 2006, reporting from Dalian, China for the New York Times, David Barboza described "a ghastly new underground mini-industry" with "little government oversight, an abundance of cheap medical school labor and easy access to cadavers and organs."[10] Premier representatives say "the bodies were not formally donated by people who agreed to be displayed."[9] The director of the Anatomical Committee of the New York Associated Medical Schools (NYAMS) worries that "you have no documentation of who this is."[5]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/nyregion/18bodies.html?pagewanted=print

But Harry Wu, the executive director of the LaoGai Research Foundation, an organization that documents abuses in China's penal system, said officials from Dalian University had been previously implicated in the use of executed prisoners for commercial purposes, having supplied bodies to Gunter von Hagens, the German entrepreneur who started the first traveling show of the dead, "World of Bodies." Dr. Sui Hongjin, who was previously Mr. Von Hagen's Chinese partner until a falling out three years ago, is now working with Premier Exhibitions, which has its headquarters in Atlanta.

You say that we now have the ability to present these bodies differently, but is it moral to, outside of the medical context?

People to this day are still after Riel's corpse to pilfer a piece of it for novelty/ for witch craft/ for ebay purposes. The thing thats stopping them is a huge hunk of stone right on top of his coffin. Famous corpses are not ever respected in the least, not ever. If people knew they could dig up Jesus's corpse they'd do so, take his pelvis, make a cross out of it, and sell it for millions.

That's why I'ma have my sorry ass cremated and scattered around the ends of the world so no one messes with it.