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I saw this too, in Denver over the summer. I thought it was so sad; there's some part of me that wants all of us to live indefinitely, or at least longer. Our lifespan seems so short to me.

One thing I liked about Bodyworlds was that it treated bodies as something important, worth looking at. Over time, it seems to me, we've shifted as a culture. When I grew up, it was enormously important that a body be handled carefully, and in my family tradition, treated in a way that allowed for an open-casket wake.

Now even my older relatives have abandoned the idea of getting buried, and encourage the people left behind to have a party instead of a wake. Also, they say, "just cremate me, my body doesn't matter, it's not ME." The party and the rejection of the body seems to me just another dodge, it's a way of saying death doesn't matter.

Except it really, really does.

The body is the amazing, and as you say, improbable thing that has been the vessel for our existence. (I also suspect that it has a lot more to do with our ME-ness than the current cultural fashion allows for). To have it do such noble unpaid -- miraculous -- work, and then treat it like trash the minute our Holy Us-Ness, our consciousness is done with it, seems sad to me.

I agree, the posings are...cheesy, like a weird attempt to be "relevant." Look, the dead are just like us! Except...they're not.

Next time you come to Florence visit the La Specola museum, the anatomical waxes are simply incredible. Much less creepy than plastinated bodies.

We are meat mannequins!

We are evidently the most highly evolved piece of biological machinery this planet has seen so far.

If you infer from an inanimate corpse (in whole, part, or transubstantiation) a statement that we are MERELY automata, that is your beholding eye, that is.

A car without its body shell does not state that "cars are mere metal scaffolds" - it says "this is the structure beneath".

A person held in a stress position during interrogation is obscene.

A corpse held in a balletic pose demonstrates the body as if captured in natural motion - away from traditional burial repose.

Organs obtained from political prisoners stayed from execution until such time as donors require them are obscene.

Animals shot simply for taxidermic trophy (as opposed for survival) are obscene.

The mind of the observer does not define obscenity. Depictions and glorifications of violations of human rights define obscenity.

Certainly, revelation of the body's structure may be reminiscent of a body violated, but that does not make revelation necessarily an act of violence, or evidence of such.

Is a picture of a naked child obscene? Or is the obscenity caused by the thought crime of the paedophile?

I noted on the news recently that a parent was requested to cease taking photos at a school football match. Presumably to prevent them creating potential obscenities?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
"A decision by a football referee to stop parents taking pictures of their children has led to an inquiry."
"The referee threatened to abandon the match unless Ken Paine stopped photographing his son. Katharine Carpenter reports."

Similar things have happened to prevent the imagined obscenity of displaying the human body's inner workings.

Thought crime: Remove all graven images, and avert thine gaze from all that remain, lest ye or thy brother become depraved or corrupted. No mortal may long gaze upon the maker's naked or unmade works without suffering the seduction of the unmaker.

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