Comments on: Bodies Revealed Boycott

By: Jolene

Jolene — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:08:37 +0000

I’m guessing this boycott wasn’t all that succesful, considering I went to the same exhibit yesterday in Connecticut. It was amazing… I was speechless beyond anything but “wow”. All you against it are acting like they kill people and then put them on display.. When in actuality these people donated their bodies for the benefit of science and peoples understanding of the human body. Very nice exhibit, but I must say, its not for the weak stomachs!

By: R

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:42:53 +0000

If I knew more about the origin of the bodies, I would’t have visited this exposition.

By: JErry

JErry — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:52:37 +0000

I think you all need to get over yourselves there not your bodies there DONATED so get over it THE PEOPLE WANTED THERE BODY THERE AT THE SHOW its a great way for kids and and people to learn about the human body in a way that we all can understand its LIFE and its not like its not clean its a show that everyone can enjoy im sorry if all you scared people dont like the show but that gives you no reason to try to take LEARNING AWAY from US PEOPLE THAT WANT TO LEARN MORE

pussies

jerry

By: Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:21:01 +0000

Chris, my name is my name and has been for 53 years — it ain’t an alias, yo.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:41:30 +0000

I saw the exhibit this afternoon and it was absolutely amazing. By far the most fruitful learning experience I have had in a museum setting. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT, DON’T GO, AND LET EVERYONE ELSE MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION. It is not about shock value or profiting from the exploitation of the dead. And the person with the alias of Mr. Mortimer, WOW, I can’t even imagine how great that made you feel to stand on your imaginary pedestal.

By: CatBrie

CatBrie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:02:04 +0000

While this paticular exhibit is not my cup of tea, only because of me being overly squemish, I did try it. And it was enthralling. To realize to this extent what your body is like and what you can be doing to it, well I feel it is very educational. Especially for kids. We put out video games and movies that make killing another person, be it human or hell even animals, okay. Kids watch this and become numb to what is really important. I think this exhibit gives them a closer look at what they do. I also believe the fact that these are real bodies makes them take it more seriously than if it was just another computerized thing. As a matter of fact I have already taken my two children to it. They are both still in grade school, 3rd and 4th grade. They found it interesting and proceeded to ask intellegent questions. They really wanted to learn. If it had not been real bodies, then the focus would of been on WOW a computer can do this. Not what I want them thinking.

But in the end I believe that a person should make up their own mind about this exhibit and that by boycotting it you are just depriving someone of a learning experience.

Thank you

By: Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:33:26 +0000

A New Day Has Dawned in Connecticut

By the time this is printed the 1st Annual Quinebaug Valley Community College Arts & Science Entertainment Expedition to see the flayed, sliced and diced human beings on display at the “Bodies Revealed exhibit by Premier Exhibitions” in Hartford will have set off for fun and games! Tittering students will drive off to Hartford to stare, ogle and gawk to the full extent of their school-funded discount price. What a bargain! Where else, for only ten U.S. Dollars, can you see humans scientifically, but artfully, ripped open, cut into pieces and posed in oh so delicate ways without all that bloody mess that usually accompanies such activities? Why, it’s almost religious in the experience!

Somebody ought to market this, they could make a mint. Besides being fun it could perform a valuable public service. Just imagine Plastinating Body Shop franchises popping up next to McDonalds everywhere. Bring in your dead, and for less than the cost of a funeral, plastinate that loved one for permanent display as a lawn ornament. Wonderful! Put wheels on them so they can be easily taken in and out of storage. Pose them in their favourite team’s uniform, and trot them out for every home game! Take them to tailgating parties! Use them to scare off burglars, or crows. Or, for sweet revenge, pose and dress them in embarrassing positions! Oh, wouldn’t that be a riot at the next tea and tart social?

Why, that gives me another great idea! Excess humans can be plastinated and set up as chess pieces for life-size games in every public park. In fact, all those tenement eyesores can be bulldozed for new flower filled plazas. No more noisy neighbours! What’s not to love?

There is no shortage of superfluous people to use as raw material. Look at all the degenerates that clog up our communities, lowering property values and endangering our children. They could finally be doing something worthwhile, and it would make every neighborhood a pleasant place to live. And, oh my, wouldn’t it be lovely to not have to listen to them rant anymore? There is just so much noise and argument in this world that we can never get any thing done, or have any proper peace and quiet. If we could have all the rabble rousers, misfits and freaks cleaned up, dressed properly and hair done stylishly, but conventionally – and oh yes, all those nasty tattoos and piercings covered over and filled in with some new People-Plaster product (which, by the way, opens the door to more new financial opportunities) – we can finally enjoy life without all that squalour and clamour. In fact, it would be restfully quiet now that only the soft strands of intellectual music would fill the air; no more screeching or awful explosions of bass guitars and raucous drumming blasting from boom-boxes and car stereos.

Instead of always releasing those dirty, uncouth criminals back into the public when their sentences are finished, we could finally be rid of their hurtful insanities while still preserving their beauty. You have to admit, some of those bad boys & girls would be just so deliciously sexy if they were cleaned up, and shut up. Why, I imagine a special adults-only playset would be a hot seller. Of course, those bodies would have to easily store in the bedroom closet, but I’m sure that won’t be a problem for our good old American ingenuity. The possibilities are endless! Imagine: automated plastinated bodies for fortune telling booths, carnival scare houses and school biology classes. Stick a computer brain in their heads and we can have plastinated bodies as casino card dealers, toll booth attendants, theater ticket takers and factory assembly line workers. There is also the fantastic opportunity for numerous spin-off products to keep the bodies new and shiny, and to fix the inevitable wear and tear marks!

Don’t forget, they could also be performing a great human service: before we plastinate them we can use their healthy organs for medical transplant in order to save the lives of the more respectable folk, like us.

Yes, let’s finally do something about all the crazy protesters, smelly riff-raff and illegal immigrants clogging up our communities with all their poverty, addictions and bad manners. I think Plastinating Body Shops is the wave of the future. Not only will it be educational and artistic, it will be fun too!

But we better get crackin’ ’cause China has a head start on us, and just look at the horde of people they can turn into plastic. Why, they could flood the market before we even get started!

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:14:00 +0000

As a student of biology, I’m incredibly excited to see this exhibit. I’ve managed to get 20 of my closes friends to go – tickets are purchased already
This isn’t about needing to be shocked to learn, this is about getting to see what has only been reserved for certain elect people in the scientific community. It is, as the ad on the page suggests, bringing to the lay people what only certain people used to get to see. And I’ve already heard so many inspiring stories from people who have gone, I can’t wait to be part of this.

If you’re worried about humans being treated as products, then look at corporations and our current health care system as run by insurance companies – don’t bad mouth the people who are offering us great educational opportunities

By: Sue malina

Sue malina — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:51:18 +0000

I am relieved that there are some willing to look at the moral implications of profiting from human cadavers. Plastination is in danger of going the same route as black market organ harvesting. If there is great profit to be made from a dead prisoner, there will be less effort made to keep them alive. We need to be very careful when we begin to look at humans as product, and these are the important lessons we need to teach our children.

By: logtar

logtar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:14:08 +0000

I gave up on the idea of a full scale boycott because people argue that it has educational value, and I understand that some people in this society do need the shock to learn, so I am stopping at the point of informing people of how some of the bodies that this company profits from are obtained and leave it up to the individual to make their own mind up. My wife actually just posted about a cool alternative. (Visible Body vs Bodies Revealed)

By: Angela A

Angela A — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:11:24 +0000

I am very much into freedom of expression and art that pushes the envelope etc. However, this exhibition is so disrespectful of human dignity and so full of crass commercialism, I am sickened.

Can we get a large-scale boycott going?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:56:47 +0000

Logtar, Thanks for a thought provoking post and for continuing to stand up against these dehumanizing displays. Have you seen all the reporting from ABC 20/20?

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4291334&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4316254&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4296699&page=1

By: logtar

logtar — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:22:40 +0000

Surprisingly enough the KC blogging community here is quite active in social activities. They get together in small and big groups at least once a month and most of them are people that yelp a lot.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:41:53 +0000

MD is just an asshole with an opinion. Only I am reserved for that title.

Moving right along…

By: Burrowowl

Burrowowl — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:35:40 +0000

In half-support of MD’s perspective: does nobody find it ironic that bloggers, who are best known for sitting in their living rooms browsing the Internets, are calling for other bloggers to not go out and do something? Is that a change from the regular itinerary of a blogosphere participant? If you were calling on folks to log log into World of Warcraft for a week, that’d really be asking for something.