while we're on the subject of dead bodies

Several years ago I went with a friend to see the Our Body exhibit at the Science Center. It was interesting, beautiful, visually stunning, thought provoking and a little sad. While we walked around the exhibit I couldn't help but notice the funeral home feeling. Conversations took place in hushed tones, if at all and there wasn't a lot of smiling - more somber observance. With their plastic slightly glossy appearance it was easy to forget they used to be living, breathing, thinking human beings but then, just as quickly something akin to grief would sneak up on you.

You know that feeling you have when you leave a funeral? I can't put it into words, sad, guilty, glad you're still here? That's how I felt when we left the exhibit, very much like I had just been to a funeral.

Regardless of the moral questions......were the bodies willing participants? {or as my friend suspected, asain criminals that had no choice in the destination of their corpse} is it "wrong" {for lack of a better word} to eternally suspend a human body this way? The whole exhibit was well worth the moral questioning...........................learn more about it here.

xo,

Mrs.B

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