That doesn't sound weird to me at all, and I've been asking myself that same question ever since first learning of this exhibit. I'm sure this is some breach of etiquette, being that this is my first post to this forum, but I feel the need to comment on what I've discovered about the Body Worlds exhibit. You can take what I have to say with a grain of salt, because I don't profess to be an expert on this matter. In fact, I've just begun to study the background information that's available from on-line sources such as media outlets and special-interest websites - which will obviously have their own viewpoints to promote - but a lot of the controversy that has been dogging Gunther Von Hagens is deeply disturbing, and in my humble opinion, is inadequately addressed by the ethics statement published on the HMNS website. Very few specifics are provided there, the implication being that everyone should simply trust the adviser's judgement that all is well. The ethical, moral, religious and aesthetic objections to the display of preserved human cadavers is not my primary concern, because that is something that each individual has to make a decision on for themselves. It is the uncertainty about the source of the bodies Dr. Hagens presents in this exhibit (and others) and how he went about securing them that bothers me. His public behavior should also give pause to anyone considering seeing this show. Here are links to some articles that I have found so far; a little googling should turn up more for anyone wishing to pursue this further on their own. - http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lif...=chi-health-utl http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/...1129261,00.html http://english.epochtimes.com/news/6-3-29/39840.html http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archi...2/05/2003097594 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/nyregion...agewanted=print http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../22/nbody22.xml
