Comments on: …The Bassett Collection is amazing?

By: Shannon T Alston

Shannon T Alston — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:17:55 +0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
keep it up

By: Cory O'Brien

Cory O'Brien — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:26:04 +0000

I missed the Body Worlds exhibit that was in my area recently, but I’d love to go see it. I heard they’re having some controversy lately about where exactly they get the bodies from. (Though from the public autopsy story, it doesn’t sound like he’s adverse to controversy!) I agree that it’s a desire to understand what we cannot see. Also, I’m a fellow donor card carrier. :)

By: pink

pink — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:02:09 +0000

Kind of reminds me of Gunther von Hagens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_von_Hagens
and his plastination technique http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
Grusome beyond words but so incredibly fascinating.
He performed a public autopsy in London which was highly controversial (and illegal I think) but the fact that tickets sold out almost as soon as they were on sale shows just how eager we are to see the insides of us.
I’m a donor card holder so my organs will go on to help people after I die, but I’m just as interested in donating my body to science as medicine.