Bodies

On Saturday we went to see the Bodies Human exhibit down in South Dakota. It’s probably the smallest of the three exhibits of this type, Body Worlds, and Bodies… The Exhibition being the two larger ones, but it was still pretty cool. Some of the exhibits were really creepy. There was one body that was cut into one inch cross sections, and there was a head that was cut that way too. It was creepy seeing just a sliver of a head with a face on it.

I had mixed feelings while I was walking through it. It was cool seeing the bodies, but it also felt kinda disrespectful for the bodies. There is also a lot of controversy about where the bodies came from. There was no mention of where the bodies came from, but they were all asian. The bodies are all prepared in china, and they aren’t good about keeping records, so nobody really knows where the bodies comes from. Some people accuse these companies of using homeless people, mentally ill individuals, and executed prisoners, but I don’t think anybody knows for sure where the bodies come from.