Community | April 22, 2010 | 7 comments

Perpetually petrified bodies : 60+ invasive plastination creations

source: http://webecoist.com/2010/04/21/perpetually-petrified-bodies-60-invasive-plastination-creati...

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Traveling cadaver exhibitions featuring permanently plasticized humans enable us to take a creepy peek in the mirror to understand what lurks beneath our skin. It's RECYCLING...which should be a GOOD THING...but for some it definitely crosses the line. What's your take?

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7 comments // Perpetually petrified bodies : 60+ invasive plastination creations

  • Poppy_Killeen
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      Poppy_Killeen  

    • I think studying the human body and anatomy would be much more enjoyable seeing it shown in this fashion. Through books it's rather droll and boring. This would make it fascinating, and much more intriguing. Would definitely go to it if it comes to my area...

    • 1 year ago
  • Almibry
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      Almibry  

    • I think it's awesome. The biggest step in body preservation since Egypt. It certainly took us long enough. And it'll really confuse the aliens that come here looking for resources: They'll find hundreds of plasticized bodies and wonder what the fuck we were up to. Like I said: Awesome.

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • I just love this I really wish it would come to Corpus Christi. I am amazed with the human body. I believe it to be a real work of art in any condition. even when it is stuck between the tire of a large truck.

    • 2 years ago
  • FlexSF
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      FlexSF  

    • It was originally designed for medical students; however, it's an effective way for everyone to learn human anatomy.

    • 2 years ago
  • gdr23
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      gdr23  

    • Saw it while it was in NYC. Amazing. Not for everyone. Educational, fascinating and reverently presented. If it weren't for those in history who did autopsy when it was against societal and religious convention, we'd still be in the dark ages when it comes to understanding our body.

    • 2 years ago
  • ozoneocean
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      ozoneocean  

    • It does cross the line.
      There are a lot of social conventions to do with dead people within society and this German fellow just craps all over them. This behaviour in most other people is considered criminal, or in the very least a sign of severe mental instability, but because he's managed to insinuate himself in that sweet-spot of the fine art establishment, with a tinge of travelling freak-show, it seems he's acquired some strange measure of respectability.

    • 2 years ago
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