Comments on: Bodies Revealed Controversy

By: emawkc

emawkc — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:22:43 +0000

Nuke,
There’s no reason science can’t be entertaining. In fact, I think it should be entertaining to be more educational.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:54:29 +0000

I’m pretty sure that once the body is dead, there is no soul, the same that there is no soul in an ear of corn, or a blade of grass. There is no moral dilemma in exhibiting soulless things.

By: Nuke

Nuke — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:37:40 +0000

I gotta kinda think there is a difference between donating your body to science and donating your body to entertainment.

By: Bea

Bea — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:49:42 +0000

I guess your comment makes my post seem like a contradiction. In any case, I still don’t agree with this display. Not because of the use itself, but because the morbidity of it all.

When I looked at those bodies I worked on when I was in college, I couldn’t help but thinking about human dignity. I don’t agree with everything science does, and I suppose I have too strong religious values to agree 100% with this kind of expo.

Being a biologist, I worked quite a lot with animals and I didn’t feel this kind of unease then. Human beings are another thing… At least for me. Let medical students and scientists do this. There are plenty of other ways to learn about the human body.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:41:04 +0000

I think that if, before you die, you designate your physical remains to donated to science, then you should be prepared to be put on display “like a freak show.”

If one honestly and unabashedly looks at all of the things that science has done in the name of progress, with the bodies of the departed, and then if one still wants their remains used by the scientific community, they’ll at least have an idea of what those uses may end up being.