I wanted to see if anyone knew where this quote came from - yes, it was in reference to "Body World's 3" and since the company I work for in part sponsored it, I got to crash the opening night gala!
If you have any initial interest, and you have $21 ($15 for members) I'd say go. Although it will be really crowded which I think will hinder the experiance (even though they are only letting people enter ever 15 minutes to avoid major crowds).
I honestly tried to connect w/ the "plasticines" (you're not suppose to call them cadavers) as dead humans, but I failed. Because they don't have skin, are all split apart and posed in strange ways, and have glass eyes, they just don't look human. I really liked the display cases that had preserved organs in them - since I am curious as to how my guts are fit together and what they do (and how much I can abuse them before they end up black, enlarged, or blocked!) Also, the slices of the brain of a person who had suffered a stroke was very moving since I know people who have had strokes (the blood clot was just this black shadowy thing.)
I am still trying to figure out if the fact that they were real bodies instead of models added anything to the educational aspect of the exhibit. Also, there is the debate that the exhibit is macabe art (when I saw one specific body I would say it was religious art), but they had some interperative panels that talked about the Sedlec Ossuary, as way of explanation (like saying, people have always done this), but it was still weird
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/kutna.html They also talked a little about how people are much less connected with death now-a-days since we live for so long. People back in the past had to deal w/ death much more often than modern Western people do, so it's harder to take.
So ya. That's my little review.
